Patience, the southernmost library lion, stood guard on Fifth Avenue against a background of golden leaves.
Mr. Fornasetti set his own painting of a baby zebra in a lush background of golden leaves — the motif that his father, who died in 1988, used on his Leopard Chest in the 1950s.
But happily, defying all predictions, Britain has since 1948 sustained an extraordinarily vigorous creative culture, even against a background of manufacturers leaving the stage like the instrumentalists in Haydn's Farewell Symphony.
The distribution of normal matter in the early universe (380,000 years after everything began, which was 13 billion years ago) was worked out a few years ago by looking at the background of microwaves left over from that early epoch.
The show has gone as far as to directly acknowledge Dorothy's Hispanic background, instead of leaving her ambiguously brown.
A woman in outline is posed against a faint background of paisley or leaves.
A unisex eau de toilette that begins with zesty bergamot, succulent mandarin and fragrant jasmine on a woody background of aromatic maté leaves, sandalwood and cedar".
In the cooler dry season, duller brown wing patterns with no striking color elements are cryptic in relation to the resting background of dry brown leaves.
Reflectance of canopy and shadowed ground are nonlinear mixtures of leaves and background signatures, which are moreover influenced by parameters of canopy, such as leaf area index (LAI), coefficient of attenuation, and leaves transmittance.
Like other technologies in history, IT and telecommunications seem destined gradually to recede into the background of human activity, leaving more time and energy to get on with the infinite complexities of business, and of life in general.
