Sentence examples for human backdrop from inspiring English sources

Mattia and Alice emerge like ice sculptures against a human backdrop that the author animates, but which the characters themselves don't treat as real.

Tesman, Brack and Mrs. Elvsted form a human backdrop for the drama queen Hedda, and Fabio Toblini has costumed them accordingly, in subdued period styles and inconspicuous earth tones.

Of course, the human backdrop to the political and medical debate over the wisdom of closing any veterans' hospital are the men and women who rely on them for health care.

Racing is locked into a dialogue about how best to extend its popularity beyond the county set, urban aficionados and the inebriated day-trippers who form the human backdrop to a Festival.

The human backdrop is too confusing: two hundred of the country's some twelve hundred islands are occupied by Maldivians, who, as Muslims, have long been forbidden pork and alcohol, and who, as subjects of the autocrat Maumoon Gayoom, were denied basic freedoms, while ninety-nine islands were reserved for rich tourists awash in lardons, mojitos, and Internet porn.

Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il flash up on the human backdrop at appropriate points on the historical narrative.

Dancers double (triple, really) as puppeteers and as human backdrops, constantly fusing and fissuring bodies, puppets and set pieces into new shapes to tell the story.

Pity the poor delegates, who are chiefly roaring human backdrops and are outnumbered 6 to 1 this year by the 15,000 media members.

The two-minute short opens with a kaleidoscopic wheel of what look like human faces, backdropped by silence and seemingly suspended in space.

Star says the magazine scene is a wonderful backdrop to human relationships.

feature against a backdrop of human visages on Tuesday, in Cupertino, California.