Sentence examples for backdrop given from inspiring English sources

The protests in Detroit on Wednesday had a particularly poignant backdrop, given that the city has declared bankruptcy.

Mr. Corzine delivered the harsh prognosis against a grim national backdrop, given that more than 20 states, New York included, are now grappling with budget shortfalls because of a downturn in the national economy, according to an analysis released Monday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Yet this campaign's economic backdrop gives Mr. Romney a critical countervailing factor.

The backdrop gave a slightly absurd cast to the meeting and mingling going on below.

But wait, the doves on the backdrop give way to a rainbow and a kinder Jehovah in white.

There is not much of a set, just an expanse of white shag carpet symbolizing snow-covered streets and a backdrop giving glimpses of falling flakes.

The latest book's rock 'n' roll backdrop gives the now-divorced Banks a chance to make a connection with his son, Brian.

Without diminishing the film's dramatic interest, this realistic backdrop gives the film a documentary aspect, which is presented no less elegantly than the spare, historical details of the director's earlier films.

Unlike "Ruined" this well-observed domestic drama does not take place against a contentious contemporary backdrop giving it extra topical significance, nor does it have the cachet of a trunk full of attention-getting prizes.

In the 1920s the Chinese backdrop gave Maugham's story its whiff of exoticism (if not for Chinese readers); these days it's the overwrought bedroom panting, the social reserve and Kitty's apparent lack of choices that seem so foreign, like dispatches from some dying planet.

"The macro backdrop gives them a good excuse to delay it".