Sentence examples for distasteful backdrop from inspiring English sources

The Maciel saga is a distasteful backdrop to a canonisation that could well become another Vatican PR own goal.

It was, as Marc Mappen recounts in "Jerseyana," a "shameful time". With the cold war as a backdrop, the anti-Communist crusade at home became an instrument to discredit distasteful policies, suppress dissent and purge opponents by impugning their loyalty.

I think my aversion to Wagner began with growing up Jewish, hearing my grandmother's first-hand Holocaust experiences, and feeling it was somehow distasteful to seek out the music which had been appropriated by the Nazis as a cultural backdrop to genocide.

But, however distasteful it finds the task, it may be as important to co-ordinate economic policy with the government.Against the confused and disillusioned backdrop of Japanese politics, the Bank cuts an impressive figure independent, public-spirited and uniquely credible.

Backdrop: Nightmarish.

The backdrop?

"Distasteful," he said.

The idea was distasteful.

"It was extremely distasteful".

It's become distasteful".

It was really distasteful.