Sentence examples for distant backdrop from inspiring English sources
SANNES, FRANCE — The setting of the Château de Sannes has all the charm that Provence is famous for: gently rolling hills, the Luberon mountains as a distant backdrop, and the sunlight that nurtures olives, vineyards and fields of lavender.
In the Berlin version, illustrated in the catalog, the piazza is viewed through a pillared portico with a coffered ceiling, against a distant backdrop of a stretch of sea on which float ships with billowing sails.
In September, new management provided spotty service, but the place has an incomparable view of Penn Cove, especially at dusk, when snow-capped mountains form a distant backdrop to sailboats moored for the night.
On a coastal plain of lush green fields right by the Lancaster canal, and framed by a distant backdrop of Lakeland and Bowland fells (and, yes, the occasional factory unit), the location is pretty idyllic.
But gazing to the south and west from the same perch reveals a more traditional Brooklyn landscape: here a cluster of bank offices, there a line of cars at a Flatbush Avenue traffic light, set against a distant backdrop of low-rises and brownstones.
Of the pieces installed when I visited, the most cleanly conceived tended to look best, among them Dan Bergman's baby-blue weather balloon, which resembles a grounded cloud; Darrell Petit's partially polished stone stool; and Raphaela Pivetta's small plexiglass version of the Twin Towers, which for two decades had provided a distant backdrop to the show.
A developer also spent weeks optimising the system's ability to display distant backdrops as texture tiles to enhance gameplay navigation and visual appeal.
Sometimes jetliners landing or taking off across the bay at La Guardia Airport fly too close, and even under normal conditions their keening engines are a distant audio backdrop along College Point Boulevard, the main commercial thoroughfare.
John's remark is meant to peg him as insensitive, but that's all that the momentous change in the nation's status is for "Tangerine": a distant, colorful backdrop providing thematic echoes of the intrigue on center stage.
The sets are spare, almost abstract, with just minimal, playfully designed props — tables, umbrellas, trees and such — seen against distant flat backdrops of shifting colors and expansive vistas.
Players have complained in the past about the United Center in Chicago and Staples Center in Los Angeles, two modern arenas with high ceilings and, because of their design, a distant-looking backdrop of faces.
