Sentence examples for brutal backdrop from inspiring English sources

The all-female band's rapid, abrasive guitar playing and caustic rhythm section provide an artful and often brutal backdrop to the anthemlike vocals, which are delivered with the speed of punk rock and the solemnity of hymns.

The fighting raged against a backdrop of brutal cold, snow and rain.

But her call comes against a backdrop of brutal legal aid cuts to housing, debt, welfare benefits and private family law.

Each of these events was sparked by a different cause, yet all take place against a backdrop of brutal cuts and enforced austerity measures.

A plain modern museum venue, almost Soviet in its brutal restraint, was the backdrop to a new chic and sportif severity: jump suits or draped dresses worn with over-the-knee leggings and elbow-length leather gloves.

Seen against this historical backdrop of brutal invasion and stubborn rebirth, the current struggles of the Eurozone seem almost inevitable.

Britain's early protests against Rushdie's work took place against a backdrop of brutal anti-immigrant racism – racism that Rusdhie himself worked to organize against.

Britain's early protests against Rushdie's work took place against a backdrop of brutal anti-immigrant racism racism that Rusdhie himself worked to organize against.

If you want to tell the most important story in human history, if you believe that rousing your audience to civic action is part of journalism's job, you might want to cover the 2016 campaign against the backdrop of brutal climate change, and to frame this election as a choice whose consequences could be irreversibly damaging for the rest of human history.

He says he was too late for 60s euphoria and optimism, and by the time he was writing on the fringe it was against a backdrop of the "brutal rebuilding of Britain.

In addition to the gym restroom, the city's beach and the contours of its pier — the latter used as the backdrop for a brutal assault — featured prominently onscreen.