Sentence examples for horrific backdrop from inspiring English sources
Those atrocities are the horrific backdrop of the six linked story lines in this dry but thoughtful drama.
If a novel like José Saramago's "Blindness" succeeds because it sews up small yet essential pockets of human normalcy against a horrific backdrop, a preëmptive label like "Trigger Warning: Violence and internment" strips it down to one idea.
Dalglish has experienced many derbies but he picked his highlights as being an emotional 1989 FA Cup final, which Liverpool won 3-2 againsthehorrificfic backdrop of Hillsborough barely a month earlier.
Can you imagine what it was like to have all semblance of civilisation stripped away before surrender, and now be faced with the very soldiers who were killing your families arriving and throwing you out of your house?" Around these intensely personal and emotional interactions, there is the horrific backdrop of a devastated nation.
Undoubtedly, both at the national level and in Arizona in particular, there has been an overall climate of fear and rage fomented that serves as the powder-keg backdrop to horrific events like the Tucson massacre.
Harrower set the menacing scene in Sydney against a backdrop of the horrific violence of the second world war.
But a 1946 memoir, set against a backdrop of one of human history's cruelest and most horrific chapters, argues that the key to finding happiness begins with letting go of your pursuit of happiness.
The crime, committed with a rapid-fire 9-millimeter pistol, carries a horrific familiarity now, and yet it remains distinctive for having occurred against the backdrop of a major American metropolis.
The backdrop to this story of ripping yarns and ripping stockings, Mulley now and again reminds us, is grindingly horrific, though.
