Sentence examples for nasty backdrop from inspiring English sources

Over the next few years achieving vaguely defined financial stability as well as avoiding both inflation and deflation will only get harder thanks to a nasty backdrop of lower trend growth and high public debt.

This is going to be a fight, possibly nasty, against the backdrop of the race for the White House.

It's a mixture of old-fashioned hard work and slightly facile symbolism, putting luxe backdrops behind nasty reality.

In cinema, the main factors seem to be a new awareness of the diversity of her work beyond the Ripley series, and the latterly acquired potential for period nostalgia – although her writing is spare, post-Hitchcock film adaptations have been visually gorgeous, juxtaposing nasty people with lovely backdrops, such as The Two Faces of January's 1960s Athens.

The back-and-forth also comes amid a backdrop of increasingly nasty competition between the two networks, with CNN trying to promote the quality of its journalism as a counter to Fox's ratings.

Against the backdrop of a nasty proxy fight that could result in the replacement of its entire board of directors, Computer Associates will report earnings after the bell today.

Reconstruction demand and a recovery in industrial output are likely to buoy the economy, said Cameron Umetsu, senior economist for Japan at UBS. "But the murky global backdrop still holds the potential to serve up nasty surprises for export-sensitive Japan," he said.

His incendiary rhetoric – Trump called Mexican immigrants, among other things, rapists – could make for an ugly backdrop to a rivalry that has already had its fair share of nasty incidents.

Things turned particularly nasty at the Homestead steel mill, where several striking workers were shot dead.Against such a bloody backdrop, David Nasaw finds it hard to explain how he came to like as well dislike his subject.

Against a backdrop of a decayed Walt Disney castle — what its creator, the artist Rachel Feinstein, called "rococo with a nasty underside" — the models walked out with an air of sweet melancholy, wearing gigantic fur hats, tailored Mary Poppins jackets in brocade tweed over cropped pants or paisley patterned dresses with the prim aura of a Dickensian world.

Backdrop: Nightmarish.