Sentence examples for set a backdrop from inspiring English sources

Greys, pinks and greens set a backdrop for shabby chic and modern pine furniture, lilac armchairs, floral cushions, little windowsill-filling pieces of local pottery, the odd industrial looking light.

"When you go into a meeting, you have to start out in a social manner to set a backdrop for the conversation.

Unlike most of Morris's work, it even has a set: a backdrop of heroically scaled red and yellow smears by the English painter Howard Hodgkin.

In the afternoon the hunters drove to a valley where craggy hillsides pocked with caverns set a confounding backdrop.

"One of the scene's most revered classics, the DaVinChe production set a gritty backdrop for the then teenage Kane Robinson to lace.

Grinding poverty set against a backdrop of soaring office towers.

All set against a backdrop of post-war Naples.

There, it was a post-9/11 revenge fantasy set against a backdrop of unpopular foreign wars.

The 2011 finals will be set against a backdrop of labor strife, and an expected lockout.

It's a subtle story of ideological battle set against a backdrop of social change.

All this is set against a backdrop of increasing sector pressure distinct from direct budgetary cuts.