Sentence examples for backdrop for more from inspiring English sources

The fall of the Berlin Wall is the backdrop for more intimate collapse in this autumnal novel.

Lettuce is not mere padding or blank backdrop for more exotic or shouty salad ingredients – it's a summer vegetable as worthy of attention as any other.

A modest crowd assembles in the bucolic setting to experience shoegazy guitars and glitter-bomb synths that provide a spacey backdrop for more barbed messages.

In recent years there have been sunnier versions: books like Frederick Reiken's "Lost Legends of New Jersey" and James Kaplan's "Two Guys From Verona" (also set in the Garden State), in which the burbs are less a spiritual condition than the backdrop for more or less ordinary stories of middle-class families.

He used the Republican National Convention as the backdrop for more than two dozen interviews and attended a fund-raiser during a one-day visit, and last week made an appearance with John McCain, the Arizona senator, to criticize soft money and its influence on politics.

This is an intense and heartbreaking bit of quality realism, putting the stress of life in a small military town during wartime on full display as a pertinent backdrop for more personal drama.

India is merely a backdrop for the more intimate story of a young man's fumbling attempts to find himself and his place in the world.

Couples in wedding finery pose for photographs in front of illuminated shop windows, with Salvatore Ferragamo, Louis Vuitton and Gucci offering the sort of backdrop for romance more usually provided by the sea or the mountains.

Just as he did today, Colin Douglas Beavers, 56, the former rankings chairman of the I.B.F., is expected over the next three weeks to painstakingly provide the narrative backdrop for the more than 83 tapes he cooperated in making.

AN Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop A mysterious suicide, an overheard plan for murder and casual art fraud: this Impac award-winning novel bears the hallmarks of a detective story, but Marías's mysteries form the backdrop for something more existential.

The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination performs around this paradox, exploring its tensions, revelling in its surprises, and urging us to bin any notion we might have of plant life being somehow passive or a static backdrop for the more go-getting life of our planet.