Sentence examples for Familiar backdrop from inspiring English sources
The turban ban has played out against a familiar backdrop.
This was not the familiar backdrop for a Girl Scout meeting.
GOOD VISUALS The story has crowds, people in uniforms, conflict and a familiar backdrop, so TV loved it.
Better, surely to view the deal against the increasingly familiar backdrop of Facebook's "It's complicated" relationship with Google and Apple.
CHICAGO -- The twin smokestacks of the 85-year-old Crawford Generating Station are a familiar backdrop in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.
This countryside is a familiar backdrop in Pearce's fiction, the village becoming Great Barley, the river the Say, and Cambridge, minus its university, Castleford.
Familiar backdrops are a big part of the Paris bid's appeal: beach volleyball on the Champ-de-Mars below the Eiffel Tower; equestrian events at the Château de Versailles; fencing and taekwondo in the Grand Palais.
With the Citadel, the Roman Catholic Church and "palm-haunted" Charleston as Conroy's familiar backdrops, "South of Broad" — named for the locale of historic houses and blueblood sensibilities near the Battery — sets out to probe the lives of Stephen and Leo's family and friends.
The votes played out against a now-familiar backdrop: a state government under fiscal stress, pushback against public-employee unions, and an economy struggling to create jobs.
Against that all-too-familiar backdrop, I'm wondering how I'd advise a daughter who came to me with a description of school hallways she hates to walk down because every fourth boy has found a fresh new way of making a lewd gesture.
"Heart of Gold" preceded "Old Man," and both found Mr. Young singing beautifully, against a familiar, rustic backdrop distinguished by Ben Keith's steel guitar playing.
