Sentence examples for devastating backdrop from inspiring English sources
This sweeping story of family, love, and friendship - told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last 30 years - is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a much loved, one-of-a-kind classic.
As "The Year of the Flood" (McClelland & Stewart) unfolds its devastating tale against a backdrop in "the undefined near future," the eerie calm of its narration casts an even more unsettling gloss on a hyperreal canvas of a future still going terrifyingly wrong.
Add to the mix a 14-year-old pregnant sister, a mother who can't cope, and an English gap year backpacker hired to help out, and we're in the arena of sibling rivalry, family relationships and growing up, against a backdrop of drought, dust, devastating heat and the grittiness of Australian outback life.
But Fallon's statement comes against a gloomy backdrop, including the stuttering peace talks and Monday's devastating suicide attacks in the loyalist coastal cities of Tartus and Jableh that killed more than 120 people.
