Sentence examples for ominous backdrop from inspiring English sources

BEIJING — China's state leadership transition has taken place this month against an ominous backdrop.

And set against that ominous backdrop is a tender, touching, personal story of self- discovery.

Indeed, another selloff on Wall Street amid concerns about declining corporate earnings provided an ominous backdrop to Mr. O'Neill's appointment.

This is the ominous backdrop to Arkham City, the bigger, badder and even darker follow-up to Batman: Arkham Asylum, last year's Bafta Game of the Year.

The death of that newspaper and the slow collapse of The Los Angeles Times, where Jack has now spent seven years, create an unusually ominous backdrop.

The US has agreed to a package of military assistance for countries in the Arab Gulf, as escalating tensions with Iran serve as an ominous backdrop to their joint summit at the Camp David presidential retreat outside Washington.

Across the street, stone aqueduct abutments provided ominous backdrops for Griffith scenes of Jack Pickford playing a boy rescued from drowning.

More recently, and more locally, fiction by young writers such as Ben Myers and Daisy Johnson weave stories around wild English landscapes which act as ominous backdrops to the human stories they tell; stories which seem smaller as a result, and thus more urgent.

ON THE SCREEN A black backdrop and ominous music dominate the ad, which alternately shows images of ground zero, a mosque and the faces of two men: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is to run the Muslim community center, and Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for governor.

Against a backdrop of ominous clouds and pounding music, the trailer featured Christie telling voters that "the looming crisis is clear.

Like Michael Schweikardt's backdrop of thick, ominous gray clouds looming over a narrow band of sea and shore, this prologue to the prologue alerts us to the darkness and drudgery lurking within the love story.