Sentence examples for civil war background from inspiring English sources

If he revisits a place or genre it's to tell a very different story – a martial arts movie in medieval China (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is followed by a spy thriller in wartime Shanghai (Lust, Caution), and a western with a US civil war background (Ride With the Devil) is succeeded by a western about a gay relationship in present-day Wyoming (Brokeback Mountain).

Examines the colonial heritages of Spanish and British America; the American Revolution and its impact; the establishment and growth of the new nation; and the Civil War, its background, character, and impact.

"I went right there, to that nightclub in Paris, with war coming on, and the Spanish Civil War in the background, and the purges going on in Moscow," he said.

That same evening, I saw a screening of the Jin Xie's Stage Sisters (1964), an emotionally realistic dramatic film about young provincial opera stars who come to the big city of Shanghai in 1940 as civil war rages in the background.

(Given the historical background of civil war and restoration, that's pretty much what it is).

Inter-house warfare between Commons and Lords will play out against a background of civil war in the Tory party, and deep divisions in Labour.

The objective is to motivate youth to engage in agriculture as a means of fighting food insecurity in South Sudan against a background of civil war.

The Lebanese civil war that rumbles in the background of Danielle Arbid's grim family drama "In the Battlefields" suggests a violent thunderstorm that approaches and recedes but never vents its full fury on the unhappy family pinned under the movie's microscope.

The civil war that rumbles in the background is a loud and distant context for the domestic drama, which thrives most vividly in Mohsin's affectionate caricatures: Laila's surly and defensive ayah; her autocratic Punjabi grandmother; and Hester, an elephantine remnant of the British Raj, whose ex-colonial friends scoff at the liberal ideals of Laila's land-owning parents.

James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is provided largely as background reading.

In a better film about Africa, Edward Zwick's "Blood Diamond," the civil war in Sierra Leone is the background to an old-fashioned but stunningly well-made romantic adventure story about three people and a diamond.