Examples of backcloth in a Sentence
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This sobering realization quickly spread from the sciences to the humanities, provoking reimagination of their disciplines to incorporate the Earth no longer as a passive and stable backcloth for the human adventure, but as an active, hyperresponsive and dangerous actor.
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Colin Waters, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2021
Morris’s giant vertical beam traverses back and forth across the front of the stage, shining on the backcloth and the dancers in its path.
—Melissa Harris, The New York Review of Books, 11 Jan. 2020
Colin Waters, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2021
Morris’s giant vertical beam traverses back and forth across the front of the stage, shining on the backcloth and the dancers in its path.
—Melissa Harris, The New York Review of Books, 11 Jan. 2020
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“Backcloth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backcloth. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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