The phrase "a larger backdrop of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a broader context or setting in which a particular event or situation occurs.
Example: "The artist's work is influenced by a larger backdrop of social and political changes in the world."
Alternatives: "a wider context of" or "a broader framework of".
But the book captures the texture of a real, flesh and blood family with all its hopes and follies, setting this portrait against a larger backdrop of changing times.
It is important to understand that this shift in perspective regarding pastoralism and wildlife in the southwestern USA has occurred against a larger backdrop of land use change that has recast ranching from a threat into a key ally for conservation.
Build a system through social that lets you deal with criticism against a larger backdrop of data and experience with customers.
But that internal discussion occurred against a larger backdrop of social change and political forces that made the passage a same-sex marriage bill easier this time around.
Singing Thursday before a large backdrop of Mount Fuji, Pavarotti was in as decent voice as he has been lately.
And all of this happens, of course, against an even larger backdrop of destruction, with which New Yorkers have recently become familiar: James LeMayne's riveting, terrifying "In the Storm," from 1992, is a first-person account of Hurricane Andrew, after which "a hundred square miles" of Florida "was blasted or simply gone".
For him, more is at stake than just the future of HFT and he will later characterise the impending litigation as "a small skirmish against the larger backdrop of the vast accumulation of wealth and political power" that is currently undermining democracy in the west.
Then, as retailers pulled their merchandise from shelves and powerful e-commerce sites deleted their wares, co-founders Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana went on camera — dwarfed against the larger backdrop of an ornate red wall covering — to apologize to the Chinese people.
Self-pity is deeply unattractive because it reveals egoism in its most basic form, a failure to put our own suffering into proper perspective against the larger backdrop of human history.
Beijing's actions in Hong Kong must be viewed against the larger backdrop of its aggressive actions in many places, and seen as a worrisome foreshadowing of things to come.
Soldiers are beaten by countrymen in South Carolina, against the larger backdrop of lynchings.
