Sentence examples for powerful backdrop from inspiring English sources

The ongoing suffering of the Syrian people was therefore a powerful backdrop to international negotiations on the flow of arms last week.

There also was a powerful backdrop: A film from the Swedish cinéaste Johan Soderberg that used the rhythmic click-clack of industrial machinery and the delicate touch of fingers on piano keys to express different fashion moods.

Many of the stories evoke the rugged Welsh countryside which, combined with the wild and dramatic natural elements, makes a powerful backdrop against which magical experiences are entirely credible.

When the president is appearing before the most powerful backdrop of our time on the third anniversary of the infamy that created it, the Democratic convention will already have come and gone in the dog days of August in the Dukakis town of Boston.

It served as a powerful backdrop, a reminder of the endemic corruption of the regime, which not only enriched the President's family but a powerful strata of the Tunisian establishment that is reluctant to see its privilege eroded by the transitional-justice law.

The dripping faucet is a powerful backdrop and his scene transitions flowed masterfully with parallel frames.

The event offered a powerful military backdrop for Mr. Bush, who was flanked by a huge American flag, a B-1 bomber and an F-117 stealth fighter.

It is a saga of money, fame and destitute women ferried to luxury locations for sex with powerful men, against a backdrop of economic deprivation and social misery.

The wide-reaching trial in the northern French city of Lille revealed a saga of money, fame and women travelling to luxury locations for sex with powerful men against a backdrop of economic deprivation and social misery.

Like disco in the seventies, the new digital music often became a backdrop for powerful female voices like Björk's, which could burn like candles in a dark room.

There are any number of reasons to revive Mojo, from the commercial (hitching a ride on the Jerusalem juggernaut) to the topical (the play's backdrop, with powerful showbiz crooks fighting over the flesh of children, has an unsavoury tang of the Saville era, Jonathan King and the Walton Hop).