Black is serene, relaxing, dramatic, a perfect background.

The fight had some dramatic backgrounds: two months before, Spinks' longtime girlfriend, who was the mother of his only daughter, had died after a car accident.

The film's dramatic background has the grit that its foreground lacks.

On this dramatic background, in turn, the title or the first words of the text were lettered, as on the curtain in an old-fashioned theater.

It provided a dramatic and fantastical background for portraits and subject paintings throughout the 1920s and early 1930s.

Of a shocking-pink raincoat that shows up in one canvas against a dramatic black background, she recalls: "It was very cheap.

The black taro's leaves are a dramatic background for a nearby flowering maple with shell pink flowers.

The amphitheater-like dining room is done in black, creating a dramatic background for the tongue-thrashing red-eyed dragons overhead.

Set against the dramatic background of India's struggle for freedom, this outstanding play surprises our expectation at every turn of the story.

All this is taking place against a dramatic economic background.