Sentence examples for Academic backdrop from inspiring English sources
Perhaps the most revealing film of the four is "Cry Me a River" (2008), from the Chinese director Jia Zhangke, which takes an academic backdrop into the future.
The Coens' latest film, A Serious Man, premieres tomorrow at Toronto film festival and is set in 1960s Minnesota against a Jewish academic backdrop similar to the circumstances in which the brothers grew up.
After days of TV cameras filming politicians and academics to the backdrop of Edinburgh's impressive parliament building, on Friday night they were in Glasgow, filming a small crowd of sectarian rioters singing Rule Britannia.
It's against this backdrop that academic developers need to reconceptualise how they work with academic staff.
Your statesman regards a campus backdrop and academic robes as the ideal stage set and costume for the utterance of large, grave thoughts.
The second novel, Small World, is set against the backdrop of the international academic conference circuit, and is full of echoes of medieval literature; young Irishman Persse McGarrigle travels the world in search of the love of his life while a large cast of international academics, including Swallow and Zapp, joust for a near-mythical professorship.
Inspired by the Romantic movement's search for solace in nature, the Barbizon painters nevertheless turned away from the melodramatic picturesqueness of established Romantic landscape painters as well as from the classical academic tradition, which used landscape merely as a backdrop for allegory and historical narrative.
Against a backdrop of anxiety over "toxic childhood", academics, psychologists and politicians have spoken out.
A character in David Lodge's Nice Work, set against the backdrop of Thatcher's reforms, comments on "the extraordinary meekness with which the academic establishment has accepted the cuts".
Questions to be explored include: Against the backdrop of technological advancements and changing consumer behaviour, how can marketing courses, and the academics that design them, stay up to speed with industry developments?
