Occasionally, as in her living room, she will paint a wall a solid color because that is the more appropriate backdrop for a painting.
That, in a seed, is the world of this collection: the archetypal evil undead, roaming around their usual suburban home, move past their pop horror movie purpose to become the bizarrely appropriate backdrop for a crucial and relatable moral dilemma.
The audio would provide an appropriate backdrop for the image of the anchor and me speaking, looking into each other's eyes, exchanging penetrating remarks.
The simple décor provides an appropriate backdrop for the colorful, tasty and mostly home-style dishes this kitchen cooks up.
On the 200th anniversary of one of Haslar's grisliest tests – the battle of Waterloo – Rob Bell uses the site as an appropriate backdrop for a history of battlefield medicine.
"Wouldn't you know it would be in a building where the developer went bankrupt and fled the country?" It does seem an oddly appropriate backdrop for the gothic serial memoirist, who turns 44 on Friday.
Last week, AT&T offered to extend current contracts with the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers for 18 months, saying it did not think the economy was an appropriate backdrop to new long-term contract negotiations.
What does the graffiti look like on the walls?" Often plucked brick-for-brick from the real world, San Fransokyo's massively-detailed digital cityscape is an appropriate backdrop for the Marvel-scale struggle of the young protagonist Hiro Hamada and his friends against a mysterious and powerful masked villain.
The Taj Mahal, a symbol of eternal love, seemed an appropriate backdrop to their efforts: the marble monument was built by Shah Jehan, the 17th-century Mogul emperor, in memory of his wife, who had died young.
So they make sure to understand the context and select the appropriate emotional backdrop against which to deliver bad news.
