Sentence examples for television backdrop from inspiring English sources

For those outside New York, reconnecting has been a way to feel a bond to a city that is part intangible television backdrop and part distant inspiration -- an origin of Horatio Alger heroes, a place where people in songs make it.

Empty arenas and stadiums in Athens offer a bizarre television backdrop for the Summer Olympics -- one that cannot be avoided by NBC, which has shown vistas of unfilled seats that have greeted athletes in gymnastics, boxing, soccer, table tennis and kayaking.

Canada wants to host the 2026 men's World Cup it is the only one of the G7 group of rich nations not to have done so and will hope for a smoothing over of all ruffled feathers.So armchair fans in 2015 will have to make do without television backdrops of Copacabana Beach and colourful favelas.

All this is staged with what can be politely ascribed to a delight in familiarity; there's an "applause" sign to egg on the audience, a stagehand who appears, kneeling with an electric fan, to make Keely's long silk scarf billow for the camera, and a variety of cheesily cheap television backdrops in semi-psychedelic 1960's style.

She has performed it on state television against video backdrops of bullet trains, jets taking off from China's newly launched aircraft-carrier and bucolic scenery.

A minute-long ad accusing Mr. Gingrich of "serial hypocrisy" plays again and again on television against a backdrop of dramatic music and black-and-white images that suggest he profited extensively from his time as House speaker.

The directors' workshop will feature "multiple components, all geared towards preparing directors for a successful career in television, with the backdrop of active television series sets as the learning environment, and top TV helmers, cinematographers and showrunners as instructors," the news release states.

And for people everywhere else, the tan-brick facades of the three buildings with the best views — 825, 831 and 845 Gerard Avenue — have achieved a kind of split-second fame, regularly appearing on television as tenement backdrops when cameras follow the arc of home-run balls into the outfield bleacher seats in right-center.

And aides said they like the backyard backdrop on television.

(The station served as a favorite backdrop for television news crews reporting on the winds).

"New York City has been not only a backdrop for television series but a crusty character in its own right".