Sentence examples for rising backdrop from inspiring English sources

One night, the train of Berle's gown he was in drag got caught in a rising backdrop and the comedian was lifted off the stage, screaming and in some danger of injury.

With its high-rise backdrop, Waikiki is often dismissed as a tourist trap but it's now finding fresh favour among visitors wanting a tropical beach holiday with some urban benefits, such as good food and decent coffee.

With this huge tree rising across the backdrop of a faraway lake, Tubbecke comes across as a master of the Surreal.

Abstinence programs are rising against the backdrop of a steady decline in teenage pregnancy, for which advocates of both comprehensive sex education and abstinence claim credit.

True or not, the octagonal tower of unpainted cedar rising against the backdrop of bamboo appears a little like Buckminster Fuller meets 21st-century Japan, with a few relaxing middle-age touches, like Brazilian jazz on the CD player and a creatively stocked liquor cabinet.

In Act II, with its long pas de deux on the boat, whose rocking motion is brilliantly conveyed by de Nobili's rising and falling backdrops of waves, and Ashton's swaying sailors, Ms. Rojo and Mr. Watson are wonderfully touching in their expression of a love not fully understood by either character.

All this occurs against a backdrop of rising inequality.

It also happened against a backdrop of rising anger over the routine ill-treatment of women.

Roh killed himself in 2009, against a backdrop of rising corruption allegations.

Against the backdrop of rising house prices, home building continued to lead the construction rebound.

The announcement was made against a backdrop of rising anxiety and continued arrests.