Sentence examples for intense backdrop from inspiring English sources

In the subdued orchestra, overlapping patterns of ascending minor scales create a hypnotic, quietly intense backdrop, pierced by fractured, brassy chords like some cosmic chorale.

What is it about the Olympics that creates such an intense backdrop for a novel?

This, writes Tommasini, creates "a hypnotic, quietly intense backdrop, pierced by fractured, brassy chords like some cosmic chorale", in a manner reminiscent of Philip Glass.

And these achievements are against a backdrop of intense pressure of work.

The growing friction between the police and the Condit camp has played out against a backdrop of intense and sometimes ugly press scrutiny.

The book notes that the St . Louisaffair unfolded against a backdrop of intense isolationist and anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States while Roosevelt was preparing to press Congress to allow the sale of weapons to nations victimized by German aggression.

As with all of his work, Hayek's methodological ideas were formed against the backdrop of intense debates over the viability and appropriateness of alternative political and economic systems.

Its combination of smoggy air, intense sunshine and dramatic backdrop of mountains means that planes touch down in style on the runways, with purple and crimson sunlight reflecting off their wings.

But the scheme has been a boon for housing companies, which have seen an upswing in profits against a backdrop of intense demand for housing and record-low interest rates.

The fear is all the more acute in that the current investigation centers on Democrats in their last redoubt of power here, the State Legislature, and takes place against a backdrop of intense partisan ill-feeling.

The row is taking place against the backdrop of intense, often fraught negotiations in recent months over how to jointly cope with the influx of refugees to Europe after Germany received 1.1 million refugees last year.