Sentence examples for life set against from inspiring English sources

(1984) sold fifteen million copies and established Springsteen as a pumped-up, dressed-down, blue-collar megastar, he pulled back, turning to honed parables of immigrant experience and small-town American life set against intimate musical backdrops.

One is American, one Anglo-Bengali, one Israeli, but the issues that they address – memory, ritual, the blaze of life set against the dark eternity of the void – are common to all.

Doig offers a gentle appreciation of the secrets beneath the surface of everyday life, set against a Western landscape that is described in concrete detail: a field is ready for plowing "when you can't see the frost on the ground by the light of the first full moon after the equinox"; a mixture of snow and dirt is called "snirt".

She displayed one work that wasn't hers: "The Blue Window" (1911), by Matisse, a still-life set against a landscape.

Derek Johns of London displays a still life set on a ledge against a backdrop of darkness.

In 1933, Thomas Mann was still speaking up for Wagner the social revolutionary: 'This man of the people, who all his life set his face resolutely against power, money, violence and war, and who sought to build his Festival Theatre [in Bayreuth] for a classless society … let no spirit of pious or brutal regression claim him for its own, but all those whose efforts are directed towards the future'.

The storyline sees Godzilla come up against two massive beasts that come to life, set on causing widespread destruction.

Mrs. Halo's life story, set against years of fighting with the Turks, mirrors the more recent religious and ethnic conflicts that have torn Bosnia, Rwanda and East Timor.

I work out a chronology of Brennan's life to set against the publication dates of her stories, so I can map the decline, and I feel lonely for the novel I am not writing yet.

Then Cézanne, with his "deeply private" emotional life, is set against "camera-loving and concupiscent" Picasso; later, the contrast is between "rural, domestic and uxorious" Braque and Picasso, who is now called "cosmopolitan, voracious and Dionysiac".

The drudgery of the millworker's life is set against a simple, soulful melody.