backcloth

So design one on the same scale as the backcloth.

It is important to have a wide backcloth when considering these problems.

This is the backcloth to the dramatic events that were soon to follow.

You must make your entire backcloth 42 feet by 25 feet.

Somewhere on the other side of the backcloth the singers had stopped too.

The distant mountains form the backcloth of an opera set.

The others, fixed in a drum of light with a green backcloth, looked distant.

This, then, is the backcloth against which Maidstone prison needs to be considered.

Objectives are important because they act as an essential backcloth to behaviour itself.

It is a gem of a book about Cairo, with the war as it's backcloth.

The objective, in turn, provides a backcloth against which to make choices about how best to behave.

So the whole proportion of this old backcloth must be altered, with five feet more designed all round.

The text provided a backcloth for all sorts of imaginings.

Rain poured down so the match was played against a dark grey backcloth.

Against this dark backcloth the morality and religion of Israel shines like a star.

The two men on watch were white ghosts against the dirty grey backcloth of the storm.

A backcloth which must have looked just the same when it formed a part of the Spanish Main.

Therefore a backcloth is restricted by the viewing frame.

Her head and shoulders stood out against the white backcloth of a snow-draped fir.

This is the backcloth to the situation.

Stars glittered with the brilliance of jewels against a velvet backcloth.

Given a positive backcloth, constructive and honest appraisal is a challenging process, not something to be feared.

This novel and distinctive economic backcloth to the inter-war years had a number of important consequences for town planning.

Almost at once the sky became a backcloth for a spectacular pyrotechnic exhibition of lightning.

The final image has the three dancers in a literal renaissance, standing above a backcloth draped below.