Sentence examples for formed the background for from inspiring English sources
The city formed the background for several of John Steinbeck's novels, among them Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945); the National Steinbeck Center is located in Salinas.
The exalted notions that Richard articulated in Ireland formed the background for his dramatic reassertion of royal authority two years later in England.
He remained based in Paris, but he traveled widely for the skiing,, fishing, and hunting that by then had become part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing.
He never made any claim to objectivity, particularly when it came to the United States government; and the world of guilt, betrayal, and ruthlessness which formed the background for so many of his novels influenced the way he saw the real world.
It formed the background for the work of the young poets of the 1980s, such as Edward Hirsch, Alan Shapiro, Jorie Graham, Cathy Song, and Rita Dove, whose sequence about her grandparents, Thomas and Beulah, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.
The monastic institutions formed the background for the social and political order in Europe throughout the medieval period.
During nighttime expeditions with Dorothy, he experienced first-hand the terror of the blitz, which forms the background for "The End of the Affair".
Being too miserly to waste my research, I used it to form the background for one of the future narratives, set in Seoul.
As foreign correspondent for several Scandinavian newspapers, Hellstrom lived in Paris, London, and New York City (1907 35), and these cities form the background for much of his early fiction.
Another means of rejecting the social order, which forms the background for significant portions of Hindu belief and practice, is renunciation (self-denial and asceticism).
