Sentence examples for illuminating backdrop from inspiring English sources

The N.B.A. is fixated on LeBron James's picturesque one, with the illuminating backdrop of last year's version with the Cavaliers.

There may be a tragic inevitability to the Arab denial of Jewish sovereignty, but the rejectionism of Israel's neighbors, and the complex ways Palestinian nationalism was bound up with larger Arab aspirations, would provide an illuminating backdrop to the story Mr. Cramer has to tell.

The early comments on Wilde are extraordinarily revealing of Cather's cast of mind in the mid-1890s, as contrasted with the period some ten years later when she wrote "Paul's Case," and they form an illuminating backdrop against which to explore the story.

Each artist has enough room to strut his signature stuff against an illuminating backdrop of his 10 compatriots.

The book covers literature, film, and museums and provides ethnographical analysis of contemporary French and francophone societies as a backdrop to illuminating important issues of Frenchness and national identity.

At D&G, the prints, illuminated on the backdrop, were cut into anything you might wear for summer — if you were young and having fun — from brief shorts and bikinis, through handkerchief-point hemlines, to wrap skirts.

The staging is full of familiar Wilson touches: the geometric backdrop illuminated with changing, saturated colors; minimal bits of scenery turned into landscapes; ensemble members crisscrossing the stage in straight intersecting lines; characters frozen in certain poses, and some stylized, angular hairdos.

Reading the Takings Clause against this backdrop illuminates its true purpose: To ensure that the power of eminent domain is exercised only to better enable the government to protect the lives, liberties, and estates of all--not simply to distribute benefits to a favored few.

Live television images on Al Jazeera satellite network showed the night sky lighted up by flames, illuminating clouds of smoke, a flickering backdrop of palm fronds and low-lying, sand-colored buildings.

This arresting work is remarkable not only for the dramatic, Caravaggesque effects created by the tenebrous backdrop and raking light illuminating the poignantly depicted features of the tortured saint in his white robes, but also for a profound pathos that transcends mere artistic virtuosity.

Behind him, is a cafe scene from any European city – smartphones and MacBook computers illuminating the faces of young men and women against a backdrop of bookshelves stacked with 60s American novels.