Sentence examples for dusty backdrop from inspiring English sources

Churchill's character, if not yet fully formed, was clearly visible – outlined in bold relief against the dusty backdrop of the South African veldt.

But for all of the campaign's advance planning, Mr. Romney arrived at the dusty backdrop for his speech at nearly the same moment that former President George W. Bush was unveiling his portrait at the White House.

Against a barren and dusty backdrop, it's easy to conjure images of people like Miz Pinch the "rawboned giant," with her "long head like a horse an pock-pitted skin, red an angry-lookin". Or the king, with his "fancy shirt with frilly collar an cuffs.

"Fillette" depicts the undressed girl against a dusty periwinkle backdrop.

Their intensity and confusion is matched by Kabul's, a dusty, dramatic backdrop for this tale.

The stiffness and formality of the poses, the dusty old backdrops, the faded precision of the photographs, even the women's makeup and inexpressiveness lend the images a kind of stilted and touching sadness as well as a wry humour.

It shows three small figures gathered at a lakefront near a dusty road, against a backdrop of glistening mountains.

An area so arid and dusty that it provided the backdrop for spaghetti westerns, Almería has made a fortune by covering itself with a canopy of transparent plastic.

Mr. Falconer suggests the scene with just a free-standing barre and a trompe l'oeil backdrop of painted dusty pillars, ornately framed portraits of 19th-century ballet sylphs and a window that looks out on an onion dome of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

Add a dusty, remote shanty town as a backdrop, and you're golden.

A dusty city in North Waziristan provides the backdrop to this elegant début novel.