Sentences with phrase «backdrop of colonial»

Add your special touches to a legendary backdrop of colonial elegance.

Additionally, the backdrop of colonial guns versus a tribe with spears are ringing a few warning signs.

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Set against the backdrop of Arizona's McDowell Mountains, the AAA Five - Diamond Fairmont Scottsdale Princess reflects its Southwestern setting with Spanish colonial - style architecture, expansive plazas and lush, flower - filled gardens.

Set against the backdrop of Arizona's McDowell Mountains, the AAA Five Diamond Fairmont Scottsdale Princess reflects its Southwestern setting with Spanish colonial - style architecture, expansive plazas and lush, flower - filled gardens.

Rhonda's Manor welcomes you to experience a touch of Africa in a gracious colonial mansion framed against the backdrop of Lions Head in Fresnaye, a select... read more

The old colonial architecture makes an attractive backdrop to busy cafes, and the renovated river «corniche» is full of life.

Rhonda's Manor welcomes you to experience a touch of Africa in a gracious colonial mansion framed against the backdrop of... more

Gracing the rugged peninsula on the edge of Old San Juan, the two historic forts add an impressive backdrop to the colonial Spanish city... and also provide amazing panoramic views of the city and sea.

Dating back to 1929, the Royal Palms Resort and Spa exudes Spanish Colonial charm against the backdrop of the Camelback Mountain, making it an ideal venue for a classic Arizona indoor / outdoor wedding.

Rhonda's Manor welcomes you to experience a touch of Africa in a gracious colonial mansion framed against the backdrop of Lions Head in Fresnaye, a select corner of Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard, a twenty minutes dr...

Dramatic 19th century Japan settingBased on the backdrop of the Boshin War period, the new campaign starts in 1864, a time of growing resentment against Western colonial power and influence.

The centrepiece — a video installation from which the exhibition draws its title — serves as the literal and conceptual backdrop for the exhibition, whereby the romanticized image of a sunset operates as a critique of colonial intervention and appropriation of nature for economic ends.

On display are three paintings on mylar overlaying reproductions of British and Dutch colonial maps against the backdrop of a galactic mural, immersive digital fabric prints of Hōkūleʻa and a Native American Three Sister Garden, an HMS Bounty ship model, a replica of a 17th century compass, and books that reference a history of oceanic exploration.

The backdrops in Contemporary Business seem carefully chosen to reflect upon Shanghai's and China's complicated past, its rapid present transformations, and its undecided future, as the merry band of outsiders groove in front of a massive, drab communist style housing project, dance on the Bund along Shanghai's Huangpu River, a vibrant promenade lined with handsome Neo-Classical, Beaux - Arts and Art - Deco buildings (former banks and financial houses from the 19th and early 20th centuries) that are beautiful relics of Shanghai's colonial past and emblems of the city's cosmopolitan present.

Against a backdrop of civil unrest and divisive national politics, they were exploring their relationship to Britain's colonial past as well as to art history.

Non-Indigenous students more familiar with colonial boundaries are instead exposed to the backdrop of David Horton's map of Aboriginal language groups in Australia.

Visitors to «Within These Walls» encounter a picture of everyday home life that emerges against the backdrop of American history, including such touch points as colonial America, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, the industrial revolution, and World War II.

They coated the walls in shades of gray for a warm, subtle backdrop and filled the room with accents that lend an English Colonial flavor.