Sentence examples for vast backdrop from inspiring English sources
For Act I, Dali painted a vast backdrop on which Tristan (presumably) appears with a dandelion head.
Blown-up Asian greenery flashed up on a vast backdrop and a dense floral patterned carpet formed a path around a judo hall.
"All my wardrobe — I think I have worn every one," said Betty Catroux, the muse of the late Yves Saint Laurent, whose fashion heritage is reflected in this vast backdrop of evening pantsuits.
The bare stage decor is a vast backdrop of squared paper, like the grid of a New York street map, and against this a cast of two-dozen dancers are drilled into epic, geometric formations – an army of urban workers who walk, jog and bounce in fiercely repeating phrases.
The vulnerability of the lone individual is evoked through a solo pianist, tinkling mournfully against footage of an exploding tower block, and by Shechter himself, howling into a microphone – his body twitching, caving and flailing in an intense lone protest against the vast backdrop of the band.
In the Oscar-nominated movie Gravity, Dr. Ryan Stone Sandra Bullockk) floats, alone, drifting, against the vast backdrop of space.
It would just be Prince, in purple pyjamas, a purple baby grand piano, a candelabra and a vast graphic backdrop of the artist himself.
Working within those confines, she has fashioned an extraordinary portrait, rich in detail, ambitious in scope, with a vast historical backdrop that informs but never overwhelms its remarkable subject.
Brien Vahey's design of a vast metal backdrop surrounded by crates evokes the scale of the ships as the cowed figures of the dockers line up on the quayside at dawn, hoping to be hired.
No bigger than a thumbnail, as insubstantial as a shred of tissue paper, it flashes from weed to weed, a wildly beating speck of blue that soon vanishes against the vaster, bluer backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean.
I sometimes stopped to inspect giant spiders, bodies the size of blackened plums, as they floated in midair against vast Himalayan backdrops, but never for too long, figuring that if they could string up a web between trees more than five yards apart they could just as easily pounce on my face.
