The unrest provided an uneasy backdrop for the formal election of P. W. Botha, formerly Prime Minister, as South Africa's first Executive President under a new Constitution.
Of course, that vacuous middle ground is an uneasy backdrop for this final homestand, straddling the belief that there will be postseason life and the reality that it may be now or never for goodbyes.
This was the uneasy backdrop for Mr. Tenet's efforts today and for those of another American emissary, William J. Burns, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs.
Matsui had an equally stark message for Abe, whose ongoing campaign to reinterpret Japan's postwar "pacifist" constitution to allow troops to fight alongside allies overseas made for an uneasy political backdrop to Thursday's ceremony.
Wheezing keyboards and nervy guitar plucks set an uneasy, almost paranoid, backdrop to Liddiard's lyrics, in which one by one he picks up the obsessions of tabloid media – Anzackery, MasterChef, mining booms, paedophiles and class warfare – and rejects them, emphatic as smashing plates.
He's shown seated, slightly sideways in his chair, which makes him look restless and uneasy, against a shimmery salmon backdrop.
Set against the backdrop of the uneasy transition in moviedom from silent pictures to the talkies, the Gene Kelly film has spawned multiple stage versions on both sides of the Atlantic, of which the director Jonathan Church's current incarnation is by some measure the best of the three that I have seen.
"Native Speaker" examines the uneasy assimilation of a young Korean-American, Henry Park, against the backdrop of a culturally diverse New York whose identity politics are becoming more fragmented.
All this comes against the backdrop of "House and Senate members in both parties" becoming "increasingly uneasy".
After all, despite the uneasy, increasingly desperate mood-state described in "The Bell Jar," the first part of the novel is set against a backdrop of big-city glamour.
The relationship between the camera and the diplomat, against the backdrop of some of Europe's greatest works of art, reveals the main theme of the film, Russia's uneasy link to its past and to Europe.In this section Giving account Before there were departments Who's afraid of the new science?
