Sentence examples for a backdrop in the from inspiring English sources

It is also one of the most recognizable, appearing as a backdrop in the movies "Contact" and "GoldenEye".

Used as a backdrop in The Greatest Story Ever Told, a Biblical epic shot in 1965, the set is a re-creation of ancient, decadent Babylon.

The British -and C.I.A.-led coup that, in 1953, overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, is just a backdrop in the novella, but Neshat had made it a major plotline.

Now overgrown with weeds and shrubs, the set of the cemetery in the province of Burgos, 140 miles north of Madrid, was abandoned after its stint as a backdrop in the film.

In the center of town stood a reminder of better times, a stately court house, which had been featured as a backdrop in the 1940 film "Grapes of Wrath," starring Henry Fonda.

As "The Year of the Flood" (McClelland & Stewart) unfolds its devastating tale against a backdrop in "the undefined near future," the eerie calm of its narration casts an even more unsettling gloss on a hyperreal canvas of a future still going terrifyingly wrong.

All of this came against a backdrop in which the threat of imminent blackouts subsided.

Outside, Sally McNicholas of Newton, Mass., was snapping pictures of her children, with the store as a backdrop in front of the boarded windows.

With those controversies as a backdrop in 1991, Ann Richards, the newly elected governor, helped push through the last wholesale ethics reforms in Texas.

The photographer and his crew are furiously painting a backdrop in time for the photo session, but they needn't have worried.

The sculpture has been used as a backdrop in commercial films, notably in the 2006 Hollywood film The Break-Up, which had to reshoot several scenes because the sculpture was under cover for the initial filming.