Their minicompound is a fine backdrop for such happenings.
Staggering greed and corruption, as usual, provide a fine backdrop for an evening's entertainment.
And the jumpsuits — if demanding — were impeccably cut, slightly roomy and a fine backdrop for chic accessories.
Laced up or bound with chains, the furniture is a fine backdrop to the vintage clothes Mr. Ludot finds with his unerring fashion eye.
Still, it's a nice addition to the house, and, at the cocktail reception on Monday night celebrating its opening, it was a fine backdrop for chatting up knowledgeable press personages while sipping champagne and nibbling on artichoke bruschetta.
Snap-on's headquarters, a gleaming expanse of stainless steel, chrome, and enamel, provided a fine backdrop for muscular American manufacturing, though in fact the firm closed its Kenosha factory more than a decade ago.
A stage had been erected with a fine backdrop painted by a local man and, after the dance-troupe had done its stuff to enthusiastic applause from the folk drinking cider or eating burgers on the hay-bales, a melodrama featuring six-guns, bar-room disputes and a blonde, enacted to the narrative of a doleful western ballad, held the stage.
Take a quick inventory of continental highlights, and it is easy to see why -- idyllic beaches, snow-covered mountains and tropical rainforests, all of which make a fine backdrop for a memorable holiday.
PopMatters praised the production, stating that "the hip-hop rhythms are catchy, sometimes in your face, sometimes subtle, but always a fine backdrop for the power of Dre's voice".
Page B1 High & Low Finance The Best of a Bad Situation If the world economy was graded on a curve, Floyd Norris writes, the United States would look fine against the current backdrop.
