Sentence examples for like a backdrop from inspiring English sources
His professional life felt generic, like a backdrop, a signifier more than a life: office job.
He proposed a big, swooping form of glass and granite that would sit like a backdrop behind the museum.
"Magic Mike," though set in and around Tampa, treats the setting like a backdrop, providing plenty of mood and tone but no dramatic particulars.
It was, Larkin wrote the poet and historian Robert Conquest, "like a backdrop for a ballet about industrialism crushing the natural goodness of man".
He'd pick a couple of girls out to do an Everly Brothers number or whatever, and the others would be like a backdrop".
The novel has a meticulously polished surface and a molten, furious core; I read it a few weeks before the #MeToo revelations began, and it has hung in my mind like a backdrop to everything that has followed since.
The Foreign Office can parp on about routine all they like, but against a backdrop of simmering tensions in the region, it appears to be a PR exercise of staggering pettiness, given that no one remotely credible thinks Argentina poses a serious threat to Falkland Island sovereignty.
These words are like traumas, a backdrop against which the repressed frustration of losing privilege plays out.
Prada is currently running "Riviera Love" as a promotion for its Lolita-like sunglasses with a backdrop of the beach set of its summer collection (www.prada.com).
Aaron Sorkin's "Sports Night" sitcom on ABC used a "SportsCenter -like show as a baCenter -likethe showre was gentle, veering closer to homage.
I liked it as a backdrop to this story of the end of childhood, as a parallel to James's psychological state".
