Against this backdrop Mansfield brilliantly interweaves meditations on class, life and death, illusion and reality.
Over the years Homan Square has formed a backdrop for high-profile drug seizures, where Chicago officials or cops display cocaine, marijuana and guns taken off the street.
Confessed criminality, allegations of lechery and charges of cover-up formed the backdrop to the Liberal Democrat campaign in Eastleigh, and so to emerge ahead was quite something.
The US has agreed to a package of military assistance for countries in the Arab Gulf, as escalating tensions with Iran serve as an ominous backdrop to their joint summit at the Camp David presidential retreat outside Washington.
Part of the main plot takes place against the backdrop of the Gulf war – which would have been going on as Banks wrote the book.
It won't directly influence Paris, but a backdrop of surging investment in renewable energy is useful for negotiators and campaigners to be able to point to.
But when Davies said how simple it was that "Terry and Julie" met every Friday night at Waterloo Station, I started to think about all these glamorous couples who met at stations (inevitably wearing 60s clothing against a sepia backdrop).
The historic city of York plays a backdrop to contemporary and cutting edge cinema.
Ushuaia is bigger and geared up for tourists; the mountain backdrop is spectacular, they say, although the morning we woke to leave the ship, it was hidden by clouds that had descended almost to the rooftops, while high winds and rain were lashing the harbour.
This is particularly impressive against a backdrop in which small cap growth stocks as a whole have actually lost money".
But he sees his own good fortune against the backdrop of what thousands of other refugees have had to go through.
