20 Metaphors for backgrounds

The background was a perspective of pillars, conveying the idea of unlimited saloons, all opening into each other.

It is difficult to imagine the conversation of such a household; family life exists only on Sunday at dinner-time; the child's background of family life is a room which is at once a bedroom, living room and laundry.

And the music still kept spinning and spinning, and finally wove in the color and fragrance and light with its subtile self; and the background of the woof was the hum and murmur of voices, and the continual rustling of feet.

Deep valleys, rocky ravines and gorges break the mountainsides, which are clothed with forests of oak and other beautiful trees, while the background is a crescent of snowy peaks rising range above range against the azure sky.

In England, the most fitting background for his strange ornament must surely be some habitation consecrated to learning, some University which still smells of antiquity and has learnt the habit of repose.

I had the privilege of visiting an American home, the background of which was a rugged mountain that looked like a gigantic picture setting forth the features of a volcanic world.

The background is a diagram of the forest as it might appear in springthe slack looseness of treatment befitting the freedom of conduct adumbrated by the verse.

And if we ever acquire The perfect life we crave, A subtle warning tells us Its background is the grave.

The foreground is a mosaic terrace; the background is rocks and water.

That background in The Dwelling-Place of Light (MACMILLAN) is an American cottonmill district with a mixed alien population of operatives, and trouble brewing as the result of a headstrong wage-cutting manager, Claude Ditmar, in conflict with the I.W.W. The phases of this grim struggle are most forcibly described, the author holding no brief for either protagonist.

Their background is the corrupt life of the city.

The background is a landscape, in which appears the city of Foligno at a distance; it is overshadowed by a storm-cloud, and a meteor is seen falling; but above these bends a rainbow, pledge of peace and safety.

The rose-tree background in a Madonna belonging to Lord Elcho is a charming instance of the value given to flowers by careful treatment.

He admitted that his proper background was the rude construction camp, and it was something of a relief when they rolled into Winnipeg.

I changed my position, working around to where the background was all open sky.

She is seated and gracefully posedthe face is in a full front view, the figure turned a little to one side and nude to the waist, the hands are folded on the lap and hold a flower, a gauze-like drapery falls about the left shoulder and the arms, but does not conceal them; the background is a brocade or tapestry curtain.

Aramaisms and the acrostic form in 31:10-31 imply that the background was the late Persian or early Greek period.

The background is flat gold, not a blue heaves with its golden stars, as in the early mosaics of the fifth and sixth centuries.

For already was beginning to be felt "the season's difference," and the grave mystery, without which Paradise itself could not have been, was about to be unveiled,the background of the picture becoming its foreground.

The background was a roomit seemed to have been in every case the sameexpensively overfurnished, inexpressive, ill-fitting its uses, like a badly chosen ready-made coat.

20 Metaphors for  backgrounds