Sentence examples for gritty backdrop from inspiring English sources

Regeneration of Stanley Dock, used as a gritty backdrop for the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film, is under way.

It was also accompanied by a striking video incorporating Jamaican dancehall choreography and Japanese costume design against the gritty backdrop of a New York industrial estate: a global-looking video for a global-sounding song.

With colonial-era Hong Kong serving as a historic and gritty backdrop, the street has emerged as a cooler alternative to the nearby, expatriate-dominated Soho, the South of Hollywood Road area.

It was a gritty backdrop to a game that was essentially about driving around destroying other vehicles.

"One of the scene's most revered classics, the DaVinChe production set a gritty backdrop for the then teenage Kane Robinson to lace.

Odd fact: Although Philly provided the gritty backdrop for the Oscar-winning movie, the city didn't commission the Rocky statue, and didn't ever suggest that it wanted one.

It opens with a fellow in a fedora dancing against a gritty urban backdrop.

He is featured in a television commercial for Sharpie markers, which shows him drawing, against a gritty urban backdrop of trains.

Still, Mr. Tsui directed and co-wrote an iconic work of the New Wave, which was defined by vernacular Hong Kong Cantonese slang, gritty urban backdrops and an unblinking look at modern society.

But the grittier, graffiti-and-bodega backdrop is not necessarily as winning as palm trees and swimming pools.

It shows: "The Amateur Spy" offers a gritty verisimilitude against a subtle political backdrop.