Sentence examples for the original backdrop from inspiring English sources

Inspired by 19th-century Beaux-Arts proportions, the walls have simplified Classical cornices and dados, creating a sense of the grand, domestic proportions that were the original backdrop for many of these canvases decades ago.

The principle is simple: readers submit photos of old photos, held up against the original backdrop, and caption them with short, often quite poignant letters to the original image.

The troupe has replaced its original backdrop of the New York skyline, which included the World Trade Center, with a more abstract design and plans to begin the show with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, said Jonathan Goldstein, who wrote the play with his sister, Dana Leslie Goldstein.

In the Owl Bar you can see an original backdrop from The Johnny Carson Show, and in the hallway is Jack Nicholson's green-eyed bedpost from The Witches of Eastwick.

The original photo's backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline was cropped out in favor of a more Coloradan-looking setting of snow-dusted pine trees.

Backdrop: The original story club in town, SpeakeasyDC, continues to thrive with its monthly showcase and other special-concept shows around town.

Some elements, such as the tenuously incorporated running commentary on Peruvian politics, really only make sense if understood as allusions to the original - in this case the backdrop of French political turmoil.

With the help of the stylist Alastair McKimm and the producer and set designer Alexandre de Betak, the duo achieved exactly the effect they were going for: a dramatic show referencing 90s minimalism (a nod to the original Helmut Lang look) set against a backdrop so raw it magnified the collection's softness, something that the Colovoses have bestowed upon the label since taking over in 2007.

The original "Upstairs" was stately, frothy fun against a backdrop of exciting historical events.

What was the original Crimean war all about It began against a backdrop of Russian expansionism as the Ottoman Empire declined.

But the journey of our heroes, in both the original and prequel trilogies, are set against a backdrop of complex political strife and oppression.