Sentence examples for convenient backdrop from inspiring English sources

The boxing was a convenient backdrop to this giant fraternity party, Cedric Kushner's monthly "Heavyweight Explosion" show.

Restoran provides a spiritual home and a convenient backdrop for the theatrical Mr. Dmitriev, who often holds court there.

But for the Impressionists in Paris in the 19th Century, a movement which coincided with an explosion in enthusiasm for domestic horticulture, gardens became a subject in their own right and not simply a convenient backdrop.

The weight of money Those ungrateful Irish ReprintsSuch thinking made a convenient backdrop to the visit to America this week of Michèle Alliot-Marie, France's first woman defence minister.

A provision of Howard's governance automatically makes the Secretary of Education an ex-officio member of the board of trustees, but many on campus felt that DeVos was using Howard as a convenient backdrop for a show of broadmindedness.

In that vein, the Berggruen Institute's gathering in the past week — timed to coincide with the annual ministerial meeting of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — made a convenient backdrop for prominent discussion of a multinational program to address Europe's alarmingly high youth unemployment rate.

Not the harsh social landscape of modern Britain -- which functions as a convenient, familiar backdrop rather than a fully imagined environment -- so much as Mr. Considine's wearying reliance on the link between misery and authenticity.

The riot backdrop recedes, a convenient prompt for teaching the world to sing anew, yet a stronger second half pushes in unexpected directions.

They naturally congregated in the football stadium in order to create public car shows - it's a convenient meeting place with a cool backdrop.

More precisely, it is a made-for-television movie that squeezes real life characters and historical moments into a convenient dramatic arc: a love story lived out against a backdrop of the cold war, California politics and Washington intrigue.

Backdrop: Nightmarish.