Here, without the backdrop of forest and mountain, without the axe in his hand, she saw that he was old, saw the way the muscles of his legs had wasted and the gray of his chest hair.
Of course, it is a game that would be interesting even without that backdrop.
"I haven't seen someone receive the support Zane has without the backdrop of a personal history," he said.
"Renard" was seen here in a chamber production, without the backdrop, designed, like the costumes, by Esteban Francés.
"Without the backdrop improving," said B. Alexander Henderson, an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, "it will be tough to get back to profitability".
But for now, the couple are happy being young and in love, reliving the lives of Lejna's parents in Sarajevo – without the backdrop of war.
Without the backdrop of war or depression or scandal, this presidential campaign was about small ideas, and the words that will be remembered reflect that.
The alternative – free to show up to the family table, or not, to exist without a backdrop – ties too poignantly with the internalized primal severance most adoptees feel.
Another reason might be that without the backdrop of European architecture, with its history and scale, as a starting point, the powers of imagination required to decide to live this way are simply too difficult for clients to summon.
But many of them expressed doubt that such a striking new record would have been set without the backdrop of global warming caused by the human release of greenhouse gases.
