Sentence examples for a background presence from inspiring English sources

But the falls are also a background presence throughout the novel, for the reader as well as for the characters.

These Americans, usually just a background presence in their adopted cities, should make their support for him more visible, she thought.

It was fitting that one of his last major roles, before retiring after the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease in 2012, had been as a pub-owner - the main character in one episode, a background presence in another – in Jimmy McGovern's anthology series The Street.

He's a background presence in Wreck-It Ralph, spilling his rings like an all-thumbs OAP fumbling for bus change.

Feeding activity in the buccal ganglia elicited by food or other stimuli presumably elicit feeding against a background presence of NO that inhibits feeding.

As Longo's girlfriend, Sherman struck Clough and the other artists and students who hung out at Hallwalls as a quiet, background presence but a presence nonetheless.

Adapting Graeme Aitken's novel, the writer and director, Stewart Main, convincingly depicts an emotionally immature world where mothers are only a vague background presence, and fathers show up just to yell at the television or deliver black eyes.

For, as I began returning to Spain with ever greater frequency, and as a passion for life subsumed one for art, I came almost to think of the painting as a watchful, background presence, accompanying me as I became progressively more caught up with a country moving from a repressive dictatorship to a vibrant democracy, to a disenchanted place on the verge of collapse.

Governments come and go but its boss since 1990, Mugur Isarescu, is a powerful background presence.

In some of the new spaces soft light enters through filtered glass walls, the Jerusalem landscape a dreamy background presence.

Politics remains a mostly background presence in the tweets collected in the book, typically only raised as a subject of coy allusion.