Sentence examples for backdrop action from inspiring English sources

Indeed, it sometimes feels like the world's second oldest profession is sexing up stories with the first, either as random backdrop action on pretty much every cable drama ever or as a wink-wink metaphor for consumerism, sexual liberation, emotional exploration or, in the case of Steven Soderbergh's 2009 film from which the series is adapted, economic anxiety.

Against these backdrops, actions must be taken because prevention is obviously better than a cure.

Sometimes Hamilton paints gallery walls with the deep blue of Chroma key video paint, as it's known in the movie business where it serves as a backdrop for action that will later be superimposed into other settings.

Let us therefore now shift attention from backdrop to action.

Context does not operate as a passive backdrop to action but dynamically affects causation, as favourable or unfavourable conditions may determine whether or not a particular mechanism is triggered.

Against this backdrop, Participatory Action for Rural Innovation PARI Development Trustst, a local non-governmental organization (NGO), supported by the Swiss NGO Enfants du Monde, has been implementing a program based on the World Health Organization's framework for working with Individuals, Families and Communities (IFC) to improve MNH [ 7].

You have to love a car-fetish movie that steers into the Los Angeles River — that famous storm drain that has backdropped auto-action set pieces in everything from "Grease" to "Terminator 2," not to mention "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," the video-game antecedent to "Drive" — just so the characters can find a sun-dappled glade to picnic in. 2. "Drive" is the year's best long-form music video.

New York provides more than the backdrop for the action in "The Havana Room".

Throughout their story the author uses the general feelings of people living through the last months of a war as a kind of backdrop for the action.

Rossner's novel was itself inspired by a sensational 1973 murder, and "Goodbar" opens with one of those ominous inspired-by-a-true-story announcements on the large video screen that serves as the backdrop for the action.

An appealing blend of a live action backdrop, filmed in the spectacular Ecrins national park in south-east France, and a cast of animated bugs and beasties is combined with inventive sound design to tell a story entirely without words.