The historian A.J.P. Taylor likened Mitford's evocation of 18th-century Versailles to "Alconleigh", the fictitious country house that formed the background to her recent best-selling novels, a comparison that she found offensive.
The difference now is that homey essences that once formed the background to more complex and alluring concoctions have acquired a glamour of their own as the star ingredients.
He did not see Zima again until the summer of 1953, the time of public and personal crisis just after the death of Stalin that formed the background to the poem Zima Junction.
(Graduate students register for 260A). 17th-century efforts in science including by Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Huygens, that formed the background for and posed the problems addressed in Newton¿s Principia.
It is this combination of social, institutional, and scientific developments that formed the background to Gould and Lewontin's 1979 paper, which can be best understood as an important but not singular event in a long-standing debate in evolutionary biology.
These gold and silver tesserae were used in Roman and the earliest Christian mosaics simply to depict gold and silver objects; in later mosaics of the Early Christian period and in Byzantine mosaics, solid fields of gold tesserae formed the gold background that appeared in almost every decoration.
The Irish annals record a number of events on Skye in the later 7th and early 8th centuries – mainly concerning the struggles between rival dynasties that formed the background to the Old Irish language romance Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin.
It's this shift of sixties advocacy and styles into seventies ways of life and thought (to put it broadly) that forms the background, and motivates the drama, of a movie that captures that zeitgeist with intelligence and verve: Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill".
However, it is advised that all teachers study Chapters 1 and 2, as these provide definitions of technical terms such as nutrition, introduce concepts such as household food security, and form the background to the chapters that follow.
