Sentence examples for academic backdrop from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most revealing film of the four is "Cry Me a River" (2008), from the Chinese director Jia Zhangke, which takes an academic backdrop into the future.

The Coens' latest film, A Serious Man, premieres tomorrow at Toronto film festival and is set in 1960s Minnesota against a Jewish academic backdrop similar to the circumstances in which the brothers grew up.

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After days of TV cameras filming politicians and academics to the backdrop of Edinburgh's impressive parliament building, on Friday night they were in Glasgow, filming a small crowd of sectarian rioters singing Rule Britannia.

It's against this backdrop that academic developers need to reconceptualise how they work with academic staff.

Your statesman regards a campus backdrop and academic robes as the ideal stage set and costume for the utterance of large, grave thoughts.

The second novel, Small World, is set against the backdrop of the international academic conference circuit, and is full of echoes of medieval literature; young Irishman Persse McGarrigle travels the world in search of the love of his life while a large cast of international academics, including Swallow and Zapp, joust for a near-mythical professorship.

This backdrop is complemented by thriving academic and business communities which produce a rich setting for learning and for enhancing global perspectives.

Against a backdrop of anxiety over "toxic childhood", academics, psychologists and politicians have spoken out.

Social intimidation, academic challenges, and parental pressures all set against the backdrop of swirling hormones and my personal penchant for worry.

In this Seminar, a panel of leading academics from the FRAME research team will present their findings against the backdrop of extraordinary human rights challenges facing the EU.