Sentence examples for background of American from inspiring English sources
Zus also blended into the background of American life.
On the way we are treated to his relationships with wives and lovers that open and fold against a background of American and European settings over decades.
The production, which Eyre remembers as "pure bravura," examined the dark, subterranean sexuality that is traditionally kept in the background of American versions.
Racial identity and its attendant hostilities appear to be jumping from their longstanding place in the background of American politics to the very center of the stage.
Notable among the many 20th-century works she performed was Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time, recounting the Nazi oppression of Jews against a background of American spirituals.
Maybe, but all that this means is that the war on terrorism has not fundamentally altered, or made irrelevant, the cultural, moral and religious divisions that have polarised America for so long.A church-going landIt is also important to judge the religious-moral vote against the background of American religiosity in general.
It cuts through the background noise of American politics.
He also wrote on the early history of the American Thoroughbred racehorse; his work includes The Belair Stud, The Roanoke Stud, The Background of the American Stud Book, The Equine F.F.V's, The John's Island Stud, and Early American Turf Stock.
Learn the cultural, historical, economic and scientific background of this American craft.
A great many aspects of the national life are thrown into high and ludicrous relief at the approach of Humbert and Lolita, and the relationship of the miserable couple is set off sharply by this background of normal American life.
It's the awakening of an open and public dialogue on national income inequality looming in the background of the American psyche since the days of Reagan.
