Sentence examples similar to lackluster backdrop from inspiring English sources
This year's Geneva auto show prepares to open on Thursday against a backdrop of lackluster sales, questions about vehicle safety and little optimism for a quick turnaround for the industry.
However, they appeared to be in no hurry to step up hiring against the backdrop of still lackluster demand.
Their plans, coups and setbacks filled the news as much as anything in the advertising world in 2002, perhaps made more visible by a backdrop of mostly lackluster ad spending.
The focus on growth, against a backdrop of looming Fed rate increases and lackluster global economic expansion, has been warranted, but if it unwinds there should be beneficiaries elsewhere.
In contrast to the stock's lackluster technical performance, there are still signs of optimism in the security's sentiment backdrop.
An exhibition that involves strolling the circular ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic New York landmark, while having serious, philosophical discussions with perfect strangers against a backdrop of pristine white walls - purposefully devoid of "art" - sounds lackluster at best, and woefully awkward at worst.
Despite lackluster second-quarter results and gloomy guidance, Hyman says the third and fourth quarter offer opportunity, as stimuli better the backdrop for fiscal 2002.
