Sentence examples for set off against from inspiring English sources

In the 1120s in England artists at the abbey of St. Albans, drawing on earlier English traditions and Ottonian painting from Germany, devised cycles of full-page scenes with large, emphatically gesturing figures set off against rectangular panels of colour, often within architectural settings.

People are set off against each other.

And Meier's strengths, in turn, may leap out all the more vividly set off against Irwin's.

It's a treat to see that doughiness set off against Duvall's severity.

"So the interest comes in the fast, modern cut of the shape set off against that".

She's just the woman to set off against Balthasar's careful, Netherlandish ways.

An increase in car bombs set off against civilian targets in world capitals would also be possible.

The SLS and the commercial space program have been set off against each other in bitter budget and political battles.

Set off against the deep evergreens of the clipped yew hedges and topiary, the brilliant borders become even bolder.

For Niru, his father, set off against the formlessness of American customs, seems more real than anything or anyone else.

Because she is set off against this unremitting uxoriousness, this Valentine's card of a campaign, Hillary seems so very alone.