The phrase "emotional backdrop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the emotional context or setting that influences a situation, story, or experience.
Example: "The film's emotional backdrop was enhanced by the haunting score that accompanied each scene."
Alternatives: "emotional context" or "emotional setting."
With that emotional backdrop, the fight, close for six rounds, turned ugly in the seventh.
The conspiracy-killer: Peter Boyer, who interviewed Foster's wife for The New Yorker, explained the evidence and, even more devastatingly, the emotional backdrop of Foster's suicide.
When the Republicans chose New York City for their national convention, it was clear that the Sept. 11 attacks would provide an emotional backdrop.
The most intriguing thing about the picture is the way it uses Las Vegas as the ideal, emotional backdrop to a story about chance and happiness.
As construction fences came down, the new World War II Memorial on the Mall opened on Thursday to thousands of visitors, providing an emotional backdrop for aging veterans who walked among its tributes to those who served.
But Wilkie Branson's new show, blending dance and film, confounds such expectations with its range of moods and dance styles, and an emotional backdrop that is tender and beautifully staged.
The pivotal moments Pinter zooms in on in each scene come with their own emotional backdrops and irrational set of feelings.
And truth to tell, the operas' structural similarities (collapsing emotional triangles, a backdrop of courtiers hanging around for fatal decisions being made offstage) make them less than optimal companion pieces.
But she shot her latest movie, "Yesterday Never Ends," in her native Catalonia because it is about an emotional crisis against the backdrop of Spain's economic troubles.
It is the result of a process carried out by academics at Cambridge and Goldsmiths, as well as a West End crew, who looked at elements from cast size, backdrop and emotional structure in the most successful shows – and then let the algorithms do the work.
An emotional Ron Thomas, with a backdrop of about a dozen photos of his son as a young man on display on stands, spoke to reporters Monday at Mardirossian's office.
