Sentence examples for as a mere backdrop from inspiring English sources
Grimes does not use Tanzania as a mere backdrop for storytelling; the land's geography and culture give breath to every line.
Jobs's Apple co-founder, self-taught software whizz Steve "Woz" Wozniak (Josh Gad), already a vocal critic of the film, is presented as a mere backdrop.
Also unlikely to make the cut would be an Indiana Jones-style movie that used Mexico's treasures as a mere backdrop.
Equally disturbing is a culture so remote from nature that it is viewed as a mere backdrop or resource to be mined and exploited with no thought for the consequences.
But then there are are those who don't so much mind the event being dramatised, as it being used as a mere backdrop, a device, even, to embellish a father-and-son romance.
The insult to the enormous injury suffered since 9/11 comes when this party, shepherded by a very popular president, uses New York City and the horrible experiences we shared as a mere backdrop, to further a dangerous domestic and foreign policy agenda that is having and will continue to have detrimental effects on the lives of ordinary New Yorkers.
It wasn't until 2004's The Day After Tomorrow, brought to you by the team behind Independence Day, that climate change actually became the subject of the film, as opposed to a mere backdrop.
Schoenaerts, who is Belgian, can't manage a proper West Country accent, but, then, nor can anyone else in the film; the rustic group on whom Hardy depends, as a tragicomic chorus, becomes a mere backdrop.
History professor Omer Bartov of Brown University notes that the physically large and strongly drawn characters of Schindler and Goeth overshadow the Jewish victims, who are depicted as small, scurrying, and frightened – a mere backdrop to the struggle of good versus evil.
The picture language was a completely integral part of the action, not a mere backdrop: a brooding sky.
Brooklyn is a mere backdrop for the best of these essays, which are really forays into introspection.
