Sentence examples for evocative backdrop from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush flew here this morning from his ranch in Texas for an evocative backdrop to press his proposal to allow more logging of national forestland.

The objective, of course, is to exploit the porch as an evocative backdrop, a Norman Rockwell podium from which to address middle-class America.

While Pearl Jam's Release may be the attention-grabbing theme bookending the drama, it's Dickon Hinchliffe's mournfully clanging score that sets the tone for this earnest tale of overwrought male bonding against an evocative backdrop of rust-belt desolation.

Matthew Barry's otherwise merely serviceable scenic design features an evocative backdrop of small-town rooftops that makes it seem possible to fly into the golden light of one of those houses' windows and a calmer, gentler world.

The piece is set to a musical collage by Johnathan Kabak that includes Steve Reich, Echoes of Nature and Samite of Uganda, an evocative backdrop of bird sounds and sea noises as well as the driven rhythms that Mr. Pomare used to great effect.

Adapted from the 2009 novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon (whose Gravity's Rainbow has been described as "the post-modern novel"), Inherent Vice is a stoner mystery/comedy set against the evocative backdrop of 1970 Los Angeles, with a vast ensemble cast including Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro and many more.

Evocative backdrops, moody set lighting, and Jonathan Demme's fluid camerawork only add to the experience.

Evocative backdrops, moody set lighting, and Jonathan Demme's fluid camerawork add to the experience.

The Italian, however, received 7.34 points fewer than the Russian, despite pulling off every one of her 11 jumps to the evocative musical backdrop of Ravel's Bolero.

He brought a slightly steely sound to his dramatic account of "Revelge" ("Reveille"), and in "Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz" and "Der Tambourgesell," he conveyed the sentiments of a young soldier about to be executed with understated, slightly macabre acceptance, supported by Mr. Ryan's firm, evocative, martial backdrop.

But approach it as an album of old ballad stories against an evocative sonic backdrop, and it's fascinating listening.