They are the jackhammer noise in the background of life.
A problem of architectural exhibitions is that their subject is the background of life, but must become foreground for the purposes of a show.
If I chose, I could blame my parents for this: they had seen themselves as spectators, in the background of life.
The sirens that lurk in the background of Life Round Here on record are turned up and brought forward to become an aggressive threat, an urban soundtrack made intensely real.
But the plants, the earlier life forms, whose existences may be static but are in every way just as wondrous, are ever more disregarded, and seen merely as part of the background of life, like pavements or buildings or central heating.
"[Our background] isn't academic," says Batista. "We have the background of life, we learned by living".
This paper presents the historical development and background of life cycle assessment (LCA) and nearly zero-energy buildings in Germany.
You can't do this if you blend into the murky background of life.
Men who abuse children were reported as coming from all social backgrounds, walks of life, professional groups, levels of education and ages.
"The overcrowding is just there — it's the background noise of life.
Conversations become garbled, with words almost impossible to pick out, and the everyday noises and situations which for most of us are the background ambience of life become a cacophony of imposing sound.
