Sentence examples for eccentric backdrop from inspiring English sources

THE rusting, mechanical skeletons of a disused coalmine might seem an eccentric backdrop against which to evoke a country's future.

On Tuesday, Parisian brand Christian Dior showed its newest collection within the baroque grandeur of the library rooms at Blenheim Palace, and on Thursday Italian brand Gucci will show its haute eccentric collection against the stained glass backdrop of Westminster Abbey.

The current wave of shows about the city reduce it to caricature: In "Girls," Brooklyn is a gray backdrop for millennial yearning; eccentrics serve only as catalysts for the girls' personal revelations.

Masterful mystery that has it all: superbly wrought characters, including a large quota of obsessive eccentrics; the evocative American Southwest as backdrop; clashing cultures; an intriguing plot that ranges from bubonic plague to poaching eagles to the tensions of a troubled romance to coldly ambitious politicians — not to mention mayhem and murder.

Set against the backdrop of war with France, this is an eccentric and, er, magical tale, not always easy to follow but cleverly made and ingeniously played.

Against this backdrop, he weaves the stories of Lord Hamilton, an eccentric peer of the Raj who founded a utopian community of fishermen in the 19th century, as well as Nirmal, a once-radical communist who flees Calcutta in the 1970s to continue Hamilton's experiment.

Its out-of-place Italianate architecture, which dates back to the 1920s, is a mixture of decorative styles and eccentric designs, creating a fantasy land that was later used as the backdrop to the 1960s British sci-fi drama, The Prisoner.

Compare now Avi's boy protagonist, stick-wielding female sidekick, turn-of-the-previous-century New York setting and eccentric detective with Moriarty's boy protagonist, baseball bat-wielding female sidekick, old New York backdrop and eccentric authority figure.

So that's Paradise, the prime patch of real estate that serves as the tumultuous backdrop to Top Of The Lake (Saturday, 9.10pm, BBC2), Jane "The Piano" Campion's bleak, eccentric six-part drama about child abuse, murder, domestic violence, painful secrets and terrible beards in a remote New Zealand community.

The more recent history of the MacKenzie pipeline hearings (1974 77) formed the backdrop for Elizabeth Hay's Giller Prize-winning Late Nights on Air, in which the foibles of a cast of eccentric characters are played out against the barrenness of northern landscapes and southern hearts.

Backdrop: Nightmarish.