Sentence examples for splendid backdrop from inspiring English sources

Their gruff barks direct us north, on into Swanson Channel and Active Pass, where three transient orcas are breaching the surface against the splendid backdrop of Mayne Island.

The soaring ceiling and Gothic wood paneling made a splendid backdrop for a L'Wren Scott collection that had an elegiac vision of Old England.

In the four miles between Saint‐Isidore and the Nice station there are three tunnels through the open hills, which form a splendid backdrop for the Riviera's capital.

This thick rice porridge makes a subtle, but splendid, backdrop for the sour, rosy and softly wrinkled pickled plums (umeboshi) that jolt me, and my palate, awake.

And, if the Republican Party wins the election in November, this plan will give it a splendid backdrop for next year's commemoration of the 150th anniversary of its great founder's Emancipation Proclamation.

At night, the floodlit buildings along the canals provide a splendid backdrop as busy waiters ferry beer, mussels and frîtes to tourists watching the world drift by at tables arranged along the cobblestone thoroughfares.

The xx last night put on a thrilling and vibrant show within the ever-splendid and intimate backdrop of Somerset House.

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The pub was on land where the king's Nonesuch Palace once stood, and later research established the leopards' royal provenance.The Tudor colours, green and white, are a backdrop to a splendid suit of armour made-to-measure for Henry in 1539.

All of this brilliance is an appropriate backdrop for India's cuisine -- equally splendid in its varied flavors.

Kushner, in an interview with NPR's "Fresh Air," takes a familiar line from historians like Baker when he offers simply that Mary "knew that the backdrop for the Lincoln administration had to be splendid and suggest power and coherence".