Sentences with word «backcloth»

Especially good are early chapters on Carlisle United and Barrow — both of which suffer from acute geographical isolation — and Hughes is excellent at depicting the socio - political backcloth of the clubs.

But, nonetheless, he does provide an interesting backcloth to some of the elements of Hartshorne's view of the relation of man and God to the world.

The eye indulges in the sensuous show of the city pulsating in the blazing sunset, towers jutting from a dusky backcloth or the urban skyline silhouetting in the crisp early morning breeze.

Among Fontana's last works are a series of Teatrini («little theatres»), in which he returned to an essentially flat idiom by using backcloths enclosed within wings resembling a frame; the reference to theatre emphasizes the act of looking, while in the foreground a series of irregular spheres or oscillating, wavy silhouettes creates a lively shadow play.

The energy of the Ballets Russes» performances will be brought to life through giant backcloths, costumes, art, film and sound.

I studied scenic design at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama before working on sets and backcloths for the theatre.

Such, in effect, triple hierarchisation — where territory, institutional power structures and discourse of identity and belonging (communality) sit in parallel hierarchical arrangements — is now being challenged by a growing urban / metropolitan voice stepping out of the seemingly homogenous sonority of a national discursive «backcloth».

War and crisis form the backcloth to the deployment of the term National Interest in foreign policy.

At any given point in time, a dynamic UK educational scene is the backcloth.

The backcloth showed the shadow of the turning of the banister, and the rising head and shoulders of the shadow of the old man, hook - nosed, hump - backed, claw - handed, stump, stump, his coat - skirts swinging.

Thus the distant mountains in no way compete for attention with the focal point, but provide the essential mass of backcloth that sets off the main areas of the foreground rocks so well.

Afloat like tree trunks torn asunder, they yield to warm light infiltrating from the backcloth of the canvas.

The backcloth to California's climate — the overall annual precipitation — may not change greatly as the world, and the US with it, warms as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion on a global scale.

The backcloth to California's climate — the overall annual precipitation — may not change greatly as the world, and the U.S. with it, warms as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion on a global scale.