Sentence examples for usual backdrop from inspiring English sources

On clear days, a traveler will be entertained by Auckland's usual backdrop of moving watercraft, from racing yachts and pleasure crafts to historic sailboats and the occasional cruise ship.

For all the usual backdrop of scepticism, history shows most of the time all it takes is a single victory for hopes of improbable glory to begin to stir once again at the fringes like rabbits in the tree line.

We met Mr. Ostroff, who is 30 and lives in Northampton, Mass., some weeks ago, at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show, where the work he was displaying included doors he had taken out of his own home — which, in a photo, looked like a New England saltbox house, not the usual backdrop for Art Nouveau.

In fact, Lepucki's California was a post-apocalypse novel, principally concerned with examining the breakdown of the nuclear family unit against the usual backdrop of roving death squads, cults, and verdant hills studded with deserted homes giving way to desolate wastelands.

Similarly at the Dsquared show, the usual loony backdrop (a camping wagon in the snowy Western woods) and clever styling tricks that are the stock in trade of Dean and Dan Caten (blacksmith aprons, cotton surplices, bad-guy Borsalinos right out of Sergio Leone), when stripped away, revealed a fairly characterless selection of dark wool jackets and artificially banged-up jeans.

The continents, Easter Island, a white horse, waterfalls and beaches -- the usual irrelevant backdrops to the main event, skyscraper-tall women with tousled hair and exposed skin, all in predictable poses.

His shellacked paintings of flying sandwiches and grinning monkeys – executed by an army of assistants in a studio with more than 100 workers – look even worse than usual as a backdrop to his major three-dimensional work, with none of the ambiguity and strangeness that make his sculptures fly.

The usual colorful Olympic backdrops will also replace the plain green look around the courts, making it look even less like plain old Wimbledon.

Staggering greed and corruption, as usual, provide a fine backdrop for an evening's entertainment.

There are lunches, homework, chores — the usual — against the new backdrop of the surreal: soon I'll be dead.

No electricity… It's a bleaker backdrop than usual against which Icelandic cop Andri and his colleagues work through their emotional issues.