Sentence examples for urban backdrop from inspiring English sources

Dark gray barrels furling against an urban backdrop?

It opens with a fellow in a fedora dancing against a gritty urban backdrop.

Still, a soundtrack with film dialogue cut into the show music put the Bottega collection up against an urban backdrop.

He is featured in a television commercial for Sharpie markers, which shows him drawing, against a gritty urban backdrop of trains.

Against that speedy urban backdrop, Mr. Cui sang, in a rural dialect, about the contemptuous way villagers are treated when they come to the city to work.

The urban backdrop -- Lucy Rose lives a few blocks from the Capitol -- is vivid, the characters are eccentrically likable, and the ending involves a satisfying palindrome.

Still, Mr. Tsui directed and co-wrote an iconic work of the New Wave, which was defined by vernacular Hong Kong Cantonese slang, gritty urban backdrops and an unblinking look at modern society.

BUENOS AIRES Spain apparently exported its sense of high-drama urban backdrops to itsformer colonies, and you can feel like Eva Perón (or at least like Madonnawhen she was in town filming "Evita") at Buenos Aires's Four Seasons Hotel (Posadas 1086/88; 54-11-4321-1200; www.fourseasons.com; deluxe rooms from$350), at the bottom of the Avenida 9 de Julio.

Location, Location, Location While some promoters have chosen urban backdrops like San Francisco, Baltimore or Denver for their festivals, others have stayed old-school, transforming farm land or open space into festival grounds.

I searched for and photographed trees and gardens against urban backdrops.

He renders many-eyed, many-limbed creatures with so much texture that they seem to melt into his ornate, dirty urban backdrops.