"I think what happened was, there was an appetite for what opera has always done well," said Nicholas Hytner, who directed the show, "which is to dramatize large passions in some people set against a sweeping historical background".
Still, this season Little League Baseball implemented another sweeping new rule, requiring background checks for every coach or volunteer working with children in Little League.
In Three Girls in a Barque (1911), Macke combined the many styles he had recently discovered: the figures are rendered in flat colours and graceful lines reminiscent of Matisse, while the background is sweeping and abstract, with bright patches of colour that are distinctly in the manner of Kandinsky.
The zooming traffic, picturesque background, and sweeping lens flare J.J. Abrahms would be proud lend the tantalizingly short video a genuinely lifelike atmosphere.
FOR some background to the unrest sweeping through Egypt, you might want to look at our special report on Egypt, published six months ago.
The first was the Love Duet from The Play of Krishna in which two Hindu deities, Krishna and Rhadha, repeatedly sing each other's names over and over against a background of shimmering and sweeping strings.
Blaring horns become bold, frenetic lines atop a neon background; wailing guitars are sweeping ribbons of charcoal.
Specializing in sweeping landscapes and realistic portraiture on gilded backgrounds, she installed works at a hundred public and religious buildings, like Radio City Music Hall and Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, the National Academy of Sciences in Washington and the Nebraska State Capitol.
But it is also the perfect place just to read a novel — by the fire, in the quiet, with no more than the sibilant sea in the background, and the high Pacific winds sweeping gently over the trees.
The background had gone dark, with a red curtain sweeping across most of it.
