Sentence examples for delicate background from inspiring English sources

More personal items are on view in the couple's bedroom, among them their ketubah (the Jewish marriage certificate that begins with the words, "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine"), set against a delicate background of cut paper.

In \u201cSmall Erasure #3,\u201d from 1999, a sternly worded letter to Hammond from an attorney\u2014regarding the return of another artist's slides\u2014provides the delicate background for a rust-colored diptych, in which dark drips redact portions of the text.

Some of what's asked will be those all-too-familiar delicate questions for background use only.

For one, they allow the examiner to pick up something as delicate as a background prop in a scale-model submarine created for The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou – maybe a crinkled old photograph hanging on the hull or a monographed life-preserver – without upending all the other tiny parts in the frame.

Hitler's most common subject was architecture -- careful renderings of old town squares, churches and the like, on top of delicate washy watercolor backgrounds.

Roasting the squash beforehand intensifies the flavour, which when mixed with potato becomes delicate with a lovely background sweetness.

Most of Pisanello's painted portraits, such as the Margherita Gonzaga (c. 1438), and Lionello d'Este (c. 1440), show the sitter in profile (a convention of Pisanello's portrait medals) against a background of delicate, colourful flowers and butterflies.

The Endangered Series features endangered species set against saturated backgrounds with delicate drips falling from the top of the piece onto their figure.

The most important thing happening in the world today is the rise of China, and that's the reality hovering in the background of the delicate U.S.-China talks under way in Washington this week.

The background had a delicate neuropil-like appearance and contained oligodendroglial-like cells, often in small clusters in Case 1, reactive astrocytes and microglial cells, also including a few foamy macrophages sometimes containing LFB/N positive myelin breakdown products.

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in Congress and the White House renewed their push for gun legislation on Thursday, just months after it was defeated in the Senate, amid delicate talks on a new background-check measure that advocates hope could change enough votes from no to yes.