Sentence examples for epic backdrop from inspiring English sources
That all this happened to an epic backdrop of mud and cold that took cycling back to its antique roots made it all the more memorable.
The music was less countercultural than conventional, a Bacharach ballad for longhairs, and although the lyrics ("Your time has come to shine") were cliched schmaltz, against the epic backdrop of strings and echoing drums they seemed like secret messages.
The Smell of Other People's Houses tells the interconnected stories of four teenagers – Ruth, Dora, Alyce and Hank – who pass the baton of the story between them as they come of age against the epic backdrop of Alaska.
Alpert says that the show "highlights the intense interpersonal moments that Korean dramas capture so well, and sets them against the epic backdrop for which Skybound has become known".
Taking its title from an emblem on the flag of Biafra, the book sustains an intimate focus and an epic backdrop as Biafra secedes from Nigeria and genocidal hell breaks loose.
I'm not certain that a small field, where you can easily find yourself running alone, is what I'd necessarily choose when hungry bears and wolves are lurking in the woods, but I'm reliably informed that this race has an epic backdrop.
Hannah J Davies Kenyan chef-slash-action man Kiran Jethwa journeys to the world's most spectacular places for a cookery show that's more like some old-fashioned Hollywood epic where the backdrop's as easy on the eye as the host.
In this rousingly pell-mell début novel, the tender arc of a bildungsroman is nearly squelched by a backdrop of epic family farce.
Unexplained car crashes, mysterious fires in hotels and houses, lurid sexual betrayals, fights, shootings and deaths occur against a rolling backdrop of epic drink and drug binges.
The part in director David Lean's sweeping epic, set against the backdrop of Russia during the First World War and revolution, and based on Boris Pasternak's novel, was written by screenwriter Robert Bolt, a fellow Lancastrian, with Kay in mind.
This time the town is the backdrop to an epic human tragedy, not a charnel house for doomed souls.
