Sentence examples for become a backdrop for from inspiring English sources

And from 1981 to 2005, the ups and downs of the Go-Go's, and then Carlisle's solo career after the band broke up, become a backdrop for her history with the drug.

In this scheme, the thousands of Americans murdered on Sept. 11 in the name of Islam have by now become a backdrop for Daisy Khan's claim that she is the victim of a Muslim-hating America.

The litigation has become a backdrop for the ever-wider marketing of radial keratotomy by doctors across the country.

It would be too much to assimilate if it didn't become a backdrop for real people, set forth in astonishing drawings of faces.

And, as often happens with hotels, a fairy-tale setting became a backdrop for imprudent behavior.

It reached south to the Syrian ruins of Palmyra, whose majestic pillars became a backdrop for gruesome beheading videos.

The White House, a symbol of the American people, became a backdrop for the new authoritarianism of the Bush era.

Phillips's incendiary words became a backdrop for a first-inning brawl Tuesday night, when he and catcher Yadier Molina went nose-to-nose at home plate.

Sometimes a song becomes a backdrop for your environment or a moment in your life when times were good or bad or joyful or sad.

But we enter another world in the second movement, which begins with a muted, austere chorale for strings that becomes a backdrop for the piano's questioning, eerie melodic phrases.

The second part tells of the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon's occupation of Moscow, and the subsequent winter retreat; the nightmare of history becomes a backdrop for the second meeting of Natasha and Andrei and for their tragic reconciliation.