Sentence examples for backdrop of something from inspiring English sources

And this has happened against the backdrop of something that has been quite depressing for the image of Italian football.

"I think that's why sticking it in a real place and trying to put it in a backdrop of something that people can really identify" was key to the audience buying into the show's core ideas about genetic manipulation and, well, a guy with a tail.

"Creating a backdrop for something as wonderful as this book is extraordinary.

Designs include a creepy psychedelic rooster, an ominous monk with a glowing halo, a pencil sketch of a long-tressed woman against a scattered backdrop of stars and something that looks like a melting stained-glass window sketched while on LSD.

You never for one second doubt that Lib trained under Nightingale and the Crimean elements, far from being mere backdrop, provide a whiff of something properly violent and agonising that permeates the whole novel.

I am always on the lookout for discarded paintings and antique prints that look like backdrops for something missing as a sort of ongoing conceptual challenge.

The connection is of course boilerplate art history, but to see it made with real-life art and artifacts against the rich backdrop of this exhibition is something else.

Could be the start of something significant given the backdrop of redundancies and wage negotiations.

The soothing motion of the sea with the backdrop of the sky is really something to experience first hand.

It's a love story that runs the full course from hook-up to betrayal and break up, set against the backdrop of the lives of rudderless 20-somethings who spend their seemingly endless free time working on impractical DIY projects.

Against this backdrop of frantic buying and selling, Opus is something of an anomaly: a relatively small superluxury development that Swire expects to hold onto itself.