Niggle is a painter struggling against the summons of death to complete his one great canvas, a picture of a tree with a background of forest and distant mountains.

Its many original flourishes include the introduction to the cavatina Comme autrefois dans la nuit sombre played by two French horns over a cello background, an effect which in the words of analyst Hervé Lacombe, " resonates in the memory like a fanfare lost in a distant forest ".

The painting already shows remarkable skill and grace, and the pine forest in the background shows a painter familiar with the mountain scenery of Thuringia.

The scene where Sarah encounters the Fire Gang had to be altered in post-production as it had been filmed against black velvet cloth, and a new forest background was added.

It deals with the arnours of a poacher and a farmer's daughter, with the forest as a background.

The party then learns the reason why half-elves are forbidden in Ymir forest, the history of the elves ' separation from the humans years ago, and Arche's family background.

The mushroom is growing on a sloping patch of ground amongst moss, twigs and other forest debris ; trees can be faintly seen in the background.

* Field Service Uniform ( Felddienstuniform )-The summer field uniform for both officers and enlisted consisted of a jacket and trousers in a dark-brown ( later a forest green ) raindrop camouflage pattern on a stone-gray background ; a field cap, service cap, or steel helmet ; high black boots ; and a leather belt with vertical web shoulder suspenders.

Orpheus with the lyre flits in the forest ; in the background are the ghostly horses of dead warriors.

… A special electric light plant was installed … a great cathedral was erected, background constructed and a realistic forest created.

Land cultivated with crops such as banana, virgin rain forest is seen in the background

Lake Melintang at Teluk Tuk with re-growing burnt swamp forest on the background

In Spanish, the word " laurisilva " is used for every laurel forest: Laurisilva misionera, laurisilva valdiviana, Macaronesian Laurisilva etc., even in African an Asian countries of Iberian background.

These included numerous sprites, such as Ardy's " waiting " pose, being removed ; tied up and crying animals being removed from the background on the forest level ; and in level 6, " Eaten!

On one side, some experts ( usually with a background in environmental sciences ) demanded that nature be left alone and that natural processes be allowed to take their course, even if it meant the bark beetle would destroy most of the forest.

On the other side, other experts ( usually with a background in forest management ) demanded intervention.

They are seated in a forest clearing at the foot of a pedestal bearing a larger than life bust of Rousseau, who by the 1780s had become a kind of patron saint for nursing mothers .... In the background are scenes from Émile's childhood.

alt = A topographic map of the pass showing Highway 82, the Continental Divide and the national forest boundaries in red on a white background with green areas

Eucalyptus albens ( white box ) with forest in the background at Swifts Creek in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

On the part of the plateau called Vještičja Gora ( around 1400 m ), south of Troglav, there is a large complex of beech forest, which stands out against the background of grass and stone.

" Against the background of somber, primitive forest she posed with unconscious picturesqueness, bizarre and out of place.

In the scene where Chaplin ( in his tree costume ) is being pursued through the forest, cars can be seen traveling on a highway in the background.

Striped maple growing at the edge of a forest with Pinus | pine and Carya | hickory in the background ( Zena, New York )

There is one waterfall of 60 ’ height in natural forest background.

alt = Painting of a rolling green landscape with trees with a row of white buildings in the background

Far end of a barrack row looking west to the desert beyond with the mountains in the background.

Rose had believed it would be a background character whose role had not yet even been determined in the film, and said he was " thinking he was going to be in the third row in a new Cantina sequence or something ".

In the background, the row of trees can be seen that is planted along the Geniedijk

After taking two AMBR ( America's Most Beautiful Roadster ) wins in a row, the car made numerous film and television appearances, usually in the background of diner scenes.

They agree that if she wins twice in a row a captive sworn to not tell what happened is released ; when she loses she has to tell the truth about her background to the leader of the criminals who has become fascinated by her.

For a magic mountain at an unnamed location in Scotland, he found that a row of trees form a background similar to the setting of an Ames room, making the water in a creek appear to flow uphill.

In the background behind Washington is a row of two Doric columns, with another row to the left.

* Row and column separators, and alternating row background colors

Lien Chan ( first row, fourth from left in background ) and Chiang Pin-kung ( first row, second from left in background ) touring the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing with the Kuomintang 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China | delegation to mainland China in 2005.

Toledo's background, engaging manner, and informal attitude made him an attractive candidate to both indigenous and non-indigenous Peruvians.

What had evolved by the mid-18th century in Spanish-dominated portions of lower Central America was, in essence, a system of apartheid, in which islands of isolated indigenous communities were surrounded by non-indigenous peoples of heterogeneous background.

Washingtonia palms along Waikoloa Beach Drive on the Big Island of Hawaii with snow-covered Mauna Kea in the background

He has designed a matching backdrop and costumes of points of color on white for Mr. Cunningham's Summerspace, so that dancers and background merge into a shimmering unity.

This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.

Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

Poster Products Inc., Chicago, Ill.: a changeable copy and display sign which consists of an extruded impact styrene background in choice of colors, onto which are mounted snap-in letters, figures, or words screened on acetate or other types of sheet stock.

Ideal for merchandising use, they are weather-resistant, and have mounting pegs on the back which fit into openings in a vacuum-formed waffle-pattern background panel.

In a set of case studies of teachers with various social-class backgrounds, Wattenberg illustrates a variety of approaches to students and to teaching which depend upon the teacher's personality as well as on his social-class background.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

He is, by background and living standards, better fitted to endure hardship uncomplainingly, to demand less in the way of subsistence or comfort, and to look after himself when thrown on his own resources ''.

Decoration is characterized by fine hatching, and contrasting colors are produced by the use of mineral-based paint on a chalky background.

The tower is decorated with monograms of Jesus ( JHS ), Maria ( M with the ducal crown ) and Joseph ( JHP ), made ​​ of ceramic pieces that stand out golden on the green background that covers the facade.

The average temperature of the universe today is approximately 2. 73 kelvins, based on measurements of cosmic microwave background radiation.

A United States postage stamp of 1945 shows the Arc de Triomphe in the background as victorious American troops march down the Champs-Élysées and U. S. airplanes fly overhead on 29 August 1944.

In LS AAS background absorption can only be corrected using instrumental techniques, and all of them are based on two sequential measurements, firstly, total absorption ( atomic plus background ), secondly, background absorption only, and the difference of the two measurements gives the net atomic absorption.

Total absorption is measured with normal lamp current, i. e., with a narrow emission line, and background absorption after application of a high-current pulse with the profile of the self-reversed line, which has little emission at the original wavelength, but strong emission on both sides of the analytical line.

Total absorption is measured without magnetic field and background absorption with the magnetic field on.

Wedge-shaped polycrystals were identified by transmission electron microscopy to grow out of the amorphous phase only after the latter has exceeded a certain thickness, the precise value of which depends on deposition temperature, background pressure and various other process parameters.

* " Native Experience " A four part television documentary series about the impact of oil and mineral development on the Native cultures of Alaska, dealing in particular with the historical background leading up to ANCSA and the experiences, memories and perceptions of both natives involved in the lands claim and their descendants today in rural Alaska.

The series website includes many images from the television series as well as background information on the subject.

Based on measurements of the expansion using Type Ia supernovae, measurements of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, and measurements of the correlation function of galaxies, the Universe has a calculated age of 13. 75 ± 0. 11 billion years.

BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.