Sentence examples for a novel backdrop from inspiring English sources

A spectacular computer-generated dust storm in the new Mad Max movie provides a novel backdrop for a car chase.

Its take on industry politics might be thinly sketched, but it provides a novel backdrop, and Jeremy Piven's energetic Ari remains a compelling character.

This is why an epidemic makes such a great backdrop for a novel.

And when Mr. Pisoni describes the dissolution of his parents' marriage, the show begins to cover well-worn broken-family territory, although the sawdust backdrop provides a novel twist even for the familiar stories of familial regret, estrangement and decline.

Haley's fully developed characters and descriptions of a country rich in cultural history did much to move writers away from the Eurocentric and stereotypical depictions of Africa previously offered by the likes of Joseph Conrad, and provided the backdrop for a novel intent on empowering black people and former slaves.

What is it about the Olympics that creates such an intense backdrop for a novel?

Writing in limber, detailed prose, Ms. Waldman has created a choral novel with a big historical backdrop and pointillist emotional detail, a novel that gives the reader a visceral understanding of how New York City and the country at large reacted to 9/11, and how that terrible day affected some Americans' attitudes toward Muslims and immigrants.

It is a rattling, magnificent, slightly leaky wagon of a novel, with the Cornish moors as its bleak backdrop.

Still, given the exotic locale and savory backdrop, one hopes for more than a novel about 20-something angst.

In this backdrop, our aim was to construct a novel dhaD expression system in E. coli and its application for 2,3-BD production under completely aerobic condition.

MP: My current project is a novel about a Latino family struggling to get ahead against the backdrop of the last two years of the Vietnam War.