Sentence examples for opening backdrop from inspiring English sources

The punchy designs by the great social-realist artist Ben Shahn inspire awe, starting with the opening backdrop - an abstract tangle of TV aerials and telephone poles.

The Conservative Political Action Conference also is opening against a backdrop of controversy over whether a gay Republican group should have been allowed to help sponsor the event.

"Havana Is Waiting" is Mr. Machado's most political work, and he said he finds it ironic that it is opening against the backdrop of the United States' new offensive after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Her politically provocative art has drawn some sharp criticism from those who feel it maligns Israel, and the Guggenheim show is opening against a backdrop of fervid controversy over Israel's offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

The artist was soon opening up these backdrops to stretches of azure sky flecked with fleecy white clouds, tracts of verdant hills and majestic mountains.

With the sound of the album's title and opening track as a backdrop, the theme of nostalgia – so key to the album – is portrayed through the perspective of a teenager looking back on a distant summer: "I wish I could remember every little moment.

Davos 2012 opens against the backdrop of some pretty ominous numbers.

The summer before, "Bonnie and Clyde" had opened against a backdrop of rioting in Newark and Detroit.

To give them room, a backdrop opened tall and wide and the audience suddenly saw clear through to the elevated tracks baking in the bright sunshine.

The trial opened against a backdrop of public hostility to Brooks and Coulson, not only because of the high-profile hacking saga, but also because of their careers.

The ancestral door at the backdrop opened on a world of Mozart prettiness, where the Dior dresses, as short as their ruffles were sweet, were smothered in pale rose prints.