Sentence examples for a backdrop of something from inspiring English sources

"I think that's why sticking it in a real place and trying to put it in a backdrop of something that people can really identify" was key to the audience buying into the show's core ideas about genetic manipulation and, well, a guy with a tail.

And this has happened against the backdrop of something that has been quite depressing for the image of Italian football.

The book works best when the jokes are set against a backdrop of genuine pain, so it comes as something of a loss when the plot swerves towards the cartoonish.

Encountering the idea again against a backdrop of marble halls and polished pews had something of the same effect as discovering that the clench-jawed revolutionary on the tattered wanted poster disguised herself in her years on the run as a pillar of the community.

With the addition of "Gil," a new comic strip starring a young boy living with his mother, children whose parents are divorced get something similar — a funny, familiar, ordinary life against a backdrop of visitation and child support.

There was undoubtedly something discordant about seeing so much water dedicated to recreation, particularly with a backdrop of parched hills in the distance.

That "something else" was presumably the 3-0 home defeat by Southampton on Boxing Day, played out against a backdrop of protests aimed at Tan, who has alienated a large body of Cardiff's support.

They nuzzle against a backdrop of autumn leaves.

Onstage, they had a backdrop of elaborate lighting effects.

The match was played against a backdrop of contentious subplots.

But they take place against a backdrop of distrust.