Sentence examples for last backdrop from inspiring English sources

The purpose of "The Year of Magical Thinking" is not to let go of Didion's lost loved ones — those faces that we see in a family portrait on the last backdrop at the finale — but to keep them alive, by planting them forcibly in the imagination of the audience.

WHEN the world's trade ministers last met in Seattle the backdrop was massive street protests.

This backdrop lasts for the entire album, and I welcome it.

"It is difficult to think of a time when British sport has been in a stronger position than it is at the moment in the aftermath of 2012, against that backdrop the last thing we want are the scenes we saw at Wembley on Saturday or indeed in Newcastle last night".

The dispute over that sale is ongoing and will be heard in the country's supreme court, so to have claimed a first Superliga title last season amid that backdrop of turmoil was a staggering achievement.

We apply our shared understanding of the changes they've witnessed over the last 35 years as the backdrop to aid reflections on the future.

But only last month, Strauss stressed the importance of England moving on from Pietersen against the backdrop of lasting tension between the pair.

The echoing empty halls of the Gorky estate form the sad backdrop to the last days of Lenin's life.

Based on the novels of Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown was set against the backdrop of the last days of the British Raj.

On the third day, with the sun bearing down and a breeze riffling the water, this muted trail served as an emblematic backdrop for the last leg of my trip.

In the last scene, designer Jeff Cowie's backdrop of muted colors communicates an idyllic place of the past, but not the present, a wreck of a farmhouse in a swamp.