If we wait long enough, the position of the closer stars will seem to shift ever so slightly against the more distant celestial backdrop.

The ranch stretched away from his position almost like a miniature set, Mummy Mountain in the distant backdrop.

The maelstrom was no longer an infinitely distant backdrop.

Visitors today walk over the extended acres of the newly opened museum with the Blue Ridge as a distant backdrop.

Lecale presents the archetypal Down countryside, with the Mournes as its distant backdrop.

These Cedrus Libani provided a distant backdrop without obstructing the clear view out to sea.

This is how I like my tropical ocean - as a scenic and distant backdrop.

Preoccupied with themselves, the characters play out their lives against such seemingly distant backdrops as the Suez crisis and the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Now nature was removed, a distant backdrop to your inscrutable thoughts.

He judged the time by where Denix hung against a distant backdrop of dark Stardust.