Sentence examples for mere backdrop from inspiring English sources
Many young composers spin the repetitious patterns of American minimalism as mere backdrop.
Brooklyn is a mere backdrop for the best of these essays, which are really forays into introspection.
The picture language was a completely integral part of the action, not a mere backdrop: a brooding sky.
Arzábal, in both its incarnations, is so cozily warm that the minimalist setting seems like mere backdrop to a scene of intense conviviality.
"Nature" again becomes a mere backdrop to human actions, however well observed, and whatever we are writing ceases to be "nature writing".
No mere backdrop, Versailles, where much of "Marie Antoinette" was shot, is the film's subject and, in some respects, its star.
Nazism and Communism become, naturally, mere backdrops.
At this age, places like KidZania are mere backdrops.
The findings of this study support the proposition that places are more than mere backdrops to experience, as participants described complex and intimate relationships with their environments.
The plants of our city are more than a mere decorative backdrop along the roadways; they are the building blocks of our biological diversity.
Some of the bitterness that Carla feels, of course, has to do with a sense of dispossession in the face of the casual appropriation of her country by feckless outsiders, for whom Havana, in all its decaying charm, has become a mere selfie backdrop.
