Sentence examples for minimal backdrop from inspiring English sources

In practice, that means the big fantasy musical number involves a grand total of three dancers performing before a minimal backdrop.

Instead, half singing, half talking, his voice given a cracked, ethereal feel by hip-hop's gadget du jour, the Antares Auto-Tune, West laid himself bare, questioning the fame and materialism he had always coveted against a minimal backdrop of 808s and haunting strings.

Just past the contorted, mixed-metal body of Ofili's visceral Saint Sebastian statue, the whitewashed, bare walls and grey, concrete floors of the the main hall of the second floor gallery provide a minimal backdrop for Ofili's early work.

Jon Hassell plays limpid, echoey trumpet figures over minimal rhythm backdrops.

The music here, by Jermaine Dupri, is minimal, simply a backdrop for the jokes about the paradoxical pleasures of spending thousands of dollars on an accessory that spends most of its time in the dark: "If I can call it a drink, call it a Smile on the Rocks.

Andy González, the bassist, played a streamlined, minimal solo against little backdrop.

(Brilliantly deployed, Held's set is minimal but effective, a backdrop of hand-painted and stacked Priority Mail boxes).

But the ones who do work in education often have to navigate a sticky web of parents, students and colleagues who have varying levels of acceptance, amid a backdrop of minimal workplace protections, The Huffington Post found after interviewing seven transgender educators in March.

Against such ravishing backdrops, the minimal movement is frequently witty and even affecting.

IN A small Baltic coastal town in 1980s East Germany, conversation is minimal:  the sea is the backdrop that seethes with emotion and colour.

Throughout the apartment, furnishings are minimal and mostly white, which provides a backdrop for the Sandbergs' art collection.