Sentence examples for providing a background from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, he spoke to a big crowd assembled in the Birmingham drizzle, clutching Labour's red-bound policy manifesto in his left hand, with a late-appearing rainbow providing a background.

In The Christmas Story by Ian Beck there is more awe and wonder with radiant skies filled with cheerful angels making wonderful music providing a background to the traditional story of the birth in a stable.

Glass, Symphony No. 6 ("Plutonian Ode") (Orange Mountain Music): The world's most popular composer proves his mettle once more, providing a background of Wagnerian grandeur for Allen Ginsberg's antinuclear poem.

Then the trumpets screech upward in waves, sometimes providing a background for a solo, soft and sensuous, by tough little Johnny Hodges, alto saxophonist, who advances toward the front of the stage threateningly and who holds his instrument as if it were a machine gun with which he was about to spray the crowd.

The approach is based on two key components—a ring topology-based scaffold hierarchy providing a background, i.e. context and reference, for a zoomable tree map visualization method.

This study builds upon previous research on podcasts as an educational tool, by providing a background in teaching, learning and cognitive theories.

On the beach at Quiberon a pounding disco beat provided a background soundtrack for lunch.

A useful lineup of lightly sketched stereotypes provides a background of woe and condescension.

"Architecture," he says, "should provide a background structure that allows people to behave in a different way.

He has restored an old whaling vessel, and is planning to reproduce a New Bedford Street at his estate to provide a background for the ship.

I doubt it's any musician's dream to provide a background to unglamorous, intellectually taxing work, often performed under a time crunch while wearing sweatpants.