Dark wood and dim chandeliers make for a seductive backdrop.
The lights dim and Eddie appears to a backdrop of blue flames.
The players and British football's national authorities were right to defy their dim and discredited international counterpart, but the backdrop to the episode is less easy to like.
The backdrop was a medieval-style cellar filled with dim candles, torture chambers and a television tuned to MTV.
He seems to be in love with the supposed gorgeousness of his own prose, a backdrop against which his characters emerge merely as dim figures, without consistent motivations or even personalities.
The music betrays not a flutter of anxiety, and most of the backdrops pacify the eye, preferring pastoral quietude to those dim London streets, strangled in fog, that proved so vivifying to Holmes in his prime.
For the romantic leads, family members, if they appeared at all, formed a backdrop, sometimes comical, sometimes supportive, sometimes grotesque, but always dimmer than the stars whose radiance they set off.
AGAINST a backdrop of squat row houses and tall industrial buildings on a dim corner in Baltimore, laughter, soft music and the intoxicating smell of oven-roasted burgers drift out to the sidewalk.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla .— After an off-season of turmoil and transition that has provided a backdrop of uncertainty and concern, the Mets opened their 50th campaign against the dim expectations of a skeptical baseball world.
Engaging the community Against the backdrop of a lively song about exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding (composed by Burkinabe musician Dim Jeremy with support from IBFAN) played to welcome Mr. Monteiro, the NGOs explained how they are working together to make a difference in nutrition at community level.
