Sentence examples for mundane background from inspiring English sources

But J's case was exceptional, standing out from the mundane background hum of sexual violence in northern India.

One is when a character tries to make a high-minded speech about art but keeps getting drowned out by mundane background noise like vacuuming and hammering.

Director-writer Carl Zobel's background is in documentary-making, and his no-nonsense style, plus the suffocatingly mundane setting, makes the viewer feel like a powerless accomplice.

Renowned for his journalism, Mr. García Márquez dug up mundane details, like the background of the Dominican baseball player he briefly knew 50 years ago, the history of a coastal bordello where he lived, the name of a typesetter who worked at one of his first newspapers.

As its images accumulate, "Time and Tide" becomes a quiet celebration of a reflective and ultimately nurturing solitude in which mundane thoughts recede to the background as one's consciousness attunes itself to an environment.

He remarked how surreal it was that we were nonchalantly strolling to dinner, discussing mundane matters, while in the background outside our base we could hear the chatter of machine guns and AK-47's.

Much has been made of Khan's Pakistani background, but the mundane existence of life in England seems to be a much more formative influence on her need to dream and create and rebel; her sense of otherness and her identification with the outsider formed from her experience growing up as a mixed-race kid in suburban England.

"Instead I have making music going on in the background to my otherwise mundane life.

The memorializing of the mundane is part of the flattening of foreground-background contrast that makes diaries different from memoirs and other forms of historical narrative.

I've noticed that we tend to collectively push the seemingly mundane tasks that are critical to survival, like eating, into the background.

Whenever you have the free time, or you're just doing mundane things like walking or cleaning, why not put the radio on the background, which also means that you can be up to date with the world?