Campaign aides said they could not recall a contest fought against such an uncertain and unsettling backdrop since 1968, when Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey battled as an increasingly bloody war was being waged in Vietnam, polarizing Americans at home.
Yet against this unsettling backdrop, a handful of key musical figures stood out through massive commercial success or by simply creating moving, sometimes exhilarating work that challenged themselves and their audiences.
Against this unsettling backdrop, Rickstad tells the story of a few days in the life of Jessup Burke, a lonely 16-year-old with a dreamy inner life and a set of remarkably snaggled teeth that he compulsively brushes to a gleaming white.
Yet even with this unsettling backdrop, another of those innumerable international climate change conferences -- this one in Doha, Qatar -- transpired in which the can was essentially kicked down the road.
Although demolished trees provide the film its unsettling backdrop, its real focus is the three families, and the meditative rhythm of their lives: hands rooting for potatoes, scythes mowing through swathes of cane, fish cleavers thumping against chopping blocks.
Pyongyang finds the restlessly peripatetic singer boggling with horrified fascination at the North Korean capital over a weird, unsettling musical backdrop of tinny drum machine beats, vocal samples and organ; Coxon's guitar sounds ghostly, it shivers and trembles, perfectly matching the lyric's alienation.
The Senate's adoption of this provision came against the backdrop of an unsettling finding by the Transportation Department's inspector general.
Splayed across an illusory black-and-white backdrop, animatronic limbs wiggle and wag, creating an unsettling combination of the real and the synthetic.
"It's an unsettling instability".
Unrecognizable genes are an unsettling problem in genomics.
