Sentence examples for serving as a frame from inspiring English sources

A concoction of buzzes and flashes by the British artist Haroon Mirza is notable mostly for serving as a frame for one of MoMA's Mondrian paintings, which looks like a fancy acoustic panel in this context.

Daily list of clinic attendee was categorized into the three groups above with each serving as a frame.

This means that you might consider an enormously enlarged photo (say, of your children), that is placed carefully in the middle of the featured wall and nothing else is added to the wall, just the paintwork serving as a frame around the border of the photo.

Four seasons in, long after many viewers had given up, "Glee" hit a high note again, its own artificiality serving as a frame for real feeling.

This is a big kit of parts that serves as a frame to performances.

The bold letters of the New York City symbol, for example, could serve as a frame for photos of New York street scenes.

With moralizing narration by Bobbi Bacha Sela Wardd), a sassy Texan private investigator with a Molly Ivins manner whose own monotonous family drama serves as a frame for the story, "Suburban Madness" sells itself as the tale of a perfect life gone wrong.

But for those of us who are either too busy or too lazy, the Oscars, of all things, can serve as a frame on the wonders we might otherwise miss.

What he particularly loved was that the fireplace could serve as a frame for the couple's eclectic style — worthless (though to them, priceless) pieces juxtaposed with objects of serious monetary value.

Wares in the Bérain style, for which Moustiers is probably most famous, are delicate and fanciful; large dishes, for example, are decorated with a spidery net, made up of arabesques, architectural motifs, birds, vases of flowers, and the like, which serves as a frame for a classical scene.

It surveys models of computation, which serve as a frame of reference for the characteristics of applications.