Sentence examples for magnificent backdrop from inspiring English sources

The plays change each July and August, but the magnificent backdrop is immutable.

Against the magnificent backdrop of the keyhole gate to the royal palace in Fes, Youssou N'Dour gave the live premiere of Egypt, his most groundbreaking album in years.

Outside the city, vineyards stretch for miles to the foothills of the Andes, which form a constant and magnificent backdrop to the vineyards.

It was given the alternative English title The Inaccessible Pinnacle, the name of one of the most treacherous peaks in the Cuillin mountains that dominate Skye and provide a magnificent backdrop for some of the film's most dramatic scenes.

Among them are an image of a farmer plowing his green-terraced rice field behind a team of water buffalo against the magnificent backdrop of Mount Agung, Bali's tallest and holiest mountain.

Paradise! patarainfo.com dayzee Tlos, near Fethiye We visited Tlos in spring, when the snow on the mountains provided a magnificent backdrop to this ancient, ruined Lycian citadel subsequently inhabited by Romans, Byzantines and, eventually, Ottoman Turks.

The magnificent backdrops, including the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty, are essential to the success of the races, particularly how they look on television.

In addition, Martyrs' Day is observed on May 6 and Independence Day on November 22. Lebanon's antiquities and ruins have provided not only inspiration for artists but also magnificent backdrops for annual music festivals, most notably the Baalbek International Festival.

Those stages in the Alps and Jura, carefully plotted by Prudhomme's No2 Thierry Gouvenou, included new climbs, steep climbs, short climbs, long climbs, magnificent backdrops and insanely spectacular hairpins, but the same spectacle: Brailsford's climbers chugging up and down the slopes with Froome sitting pretty in yellow in their wake.

Whereas the Uists and Benbecula are low-lying patchworks of land and water, Harris (the old Norse word for "higher") is rocky, raw and tall, with a number of world-class beaches set against a magnificent Atlantic backdrop along its western Gold Coast.

"Oh, golly," said an elderly woman visiting from Seattle, when she stepped off the bus in the Punakha valley and found herself surrounded by an alarming concentration of penis imagery, set against a magnificent Himalayan backdrop.