Sentence examples for brooding backdrop from inspiring English sources

Before this, Mexico was just a brooding backdrop.

The dramatic, brooding backdrop of the Quiraing, with its pinnacles, crests and buttresses, is framed in the windows, contrasting with the pretty, colourful garden where vegetables and herbs are grown to flavour delicious soups.

Largely self-written, it's much shaped by producer Gerry Diver (Knapp's husband), who mixes electro-lite touches with tinkling acoustics, and on Seagiver and Hidden Seam elaborate strings and charging drums, providing a brooding backdrop for Knapp's vocal gymnastics.

Almost overnight, everyone became obsessed with the twisting plot lines and eccentric cast of characters, as well as the dramatic real-life landscapes that provided the brooding backdrop for this spine-tingling prime-time soap opera.

With its bright yellow breast and even brighter yellow stripe on its black bill, it looks unworldly against the brooding green backdrop; it looks like something out of a dream.

"There is nothing to fear!" On stage, against a brooding musical backdrop and songs more growly than Tom Waits, a woman clutches a newspaper.

Jeck's sampled sounds provide an aural backdrop, sometimes brooding and hypnotic, sometimes profoundly threatening, to Bryars's musical meditation, in which middle and low-pitched instruments – cellos, basses, bass clarinet, tenor horn – predominate.

Pleasingly, there's no great departure in style: Gahan's distinctive baritone takes centre stage, set against a backdrop of slow, brooding instrumentation that's embellished with hints of gospel and blues.

Its brooding stone architecture has also provided the backdrop for Victor Frankenstein, starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, Sherlock Holmes, starring Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr, and the television series Ripper Street and Peaky Blinders.

As with The Drowned Book, the dark, brooding depths of the river Tyne form the backdrop to many an accidental death or suicide, while even the stories located elsewhere are suitably waterlogged.

With its bleak, brooding landscape and isolated communities, this wild, far-flung archipelago off the north coast of Scotland is the perfect backdrop for our own, homegrown Scandi noir.