Sentence examples for pretty backdrop from inspiring English sources

The deck overlooks a wide, glittery lake, a pretty backdrop for a sunny Sunday brunch of, perhaps, crab cake, homemade soup or eggs in a half-dozen variations.

While beautiful environmental details look impressive on a 2D display, they feel truly fascinating and immersive in VR – each time you reach a new cliff top and get to survey the scenery, it feels like a genuine reward, rather than a mere pretty backdrop.

Like Beck's Morning Phase, Everett deals with his heartache over an overtly pretty backdrop (bassoon, musical saw and celesta all feature) and things chime together on the instrumental Where I'm at, which he reprises as final track Where I'm Going, complete with Tom Waits impersonation.

Glistening waves made for a pretty backdrop as she posed next to her friend, alternative singer/songwriter Erin McCarley.

Becky Bain from Idolator commented that the video is a "complete success" in case "the main draw of watching a Shakira video is to watch the Colombian singer swivel her honest hips around pretty backdrops while wearing revealing clothing".

We said, 'The country's killing us.' " Still, in the context of what he has come here to do, the undulating meadows are a pretty good backdrop.

But that made sense: murder would have been too real, too abject there and, given Dexter's aesthetic of murder as an intellectual riddle to be solved in front of a pretty English backdrop, Morse could hardly be expected to wander down those mean streets after a pint of authentically warm bitter at the Perch.

The "clan" shot their photo in fun costumes with a pretty realistic backdrop.

After all, most of us see the trees woven into our city streets and parks as just a pretty, cinematic backdrop for urban life.

That's more than can be said for The Love Punch (Entertainment One, 12), a flaccid romantic caper with Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan marking time against admittedly pretty Riviera backdrops, or the retrograde post-Balkan war thriller Killing Season (Lions Gate, 15).

In "A Touch of Sin," the world isn't an amorphous backdrop, pretty scenery for private dramas, it is a stage on which men and women struggle to fulfill basic moral obligations, including recognizing one another's humanity.