Sentence examples for Contemporary backdrop from inspiring English sources

"I thought it would be an effective contemporary backdrop for a thriller".

Unlike "Ruined" this well-observed domestic drama does not take place against a contentious contemporary backdrop giving it extra topical significance, nor does it have the cachet of a trunk full of attention-getting prizes.

Connor conflates last summer's London riots and the Occupy movement to create a contemporary backdrop for the rise of a new political leader who threatens the status quo of capitalism and state authority.

Yet despite such updates, King's familiar themes remain essentially unaltered: timeless parental anxieties about children and death juxtaposed with the modern-day spectre of property horror; the legacy of ancient tribal lands now colonised by wealthy white landowners; the haunted family fear of bad-seed retribution played out against a jarringly contemporary backdrop.

But sports -- like other cultural diversions -- provide a contemporary backdrop for family bonding.

The real power behind Siegel's book, however, comes from the contemporary backdrop against which we read it.

But it's a particularly rich and complicated version, weaving detectives hunting down drug traffickers and terrorists into a contemporary Parisian backdrop of political arrivistes, corrupt judges and criminals with friends in high places, including predators in the mold of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

She sets her end-of-the-world pronouncements over a contemporary-sounding backdrop of cinematic synths, trap drums, and delicate electronic flourishes courtesy of Scottish producer and Kanye West collaborator Hudson Mohawke and American experimental musician Oneohtrix Point Never.

Against this historical backdrop, contemporary urban planning concepts are being used to build five new cities between Xi'an and Xianyang collectively called the "Xixian New Area to accommodate the growing population and attract technology investments to the region.

Rather than the old model of landscape as a pleasant backdrop, contemporary needs are for landscapes that are more active, programmed and useful".

The historic city of York plays a backdrop to contemporary and cutting edge cinema.