Sentence examples for psychological backdrop from inspiring English sources

The poisonous legacy of World War II provided the psychological backdrop to Deborah Levy's novel Swimming Home (2011), which was also short-listed for the Man Booker.

The production was directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, with simple but imaginative sets by Nick Francone that used framed photographs to create a psychological backdrop rather than a sense of place.

She has spent a lot of time researching the psychological backdrop for gender disparity and taking action through company culture with the aim of eradicating sexism before it takes root.

Where the production struggles is in creating a credible backdrop, both psychological and physical, to the moments of transgression and disappointment.

All three are humanist in outlook and use contemporary Mexico as both a psychological and a physical backdrop for their stories.In "De La Calle" Gerardo Tort tells the story of two teenagers living on the streets of Mexico city.

Easier to articulate, perhaps, are the layers of need that drive his efforts, resulting in images that he views as "backdrops for a more submerged psychological drama".

Instead of being the backdrop to people's lives, houses had assumed such economic and psychological importance that they had now become principal characters in their own right.

1 Advanced mainly through work in developmental psychopathology, the construct of resilience has been explored in biological, psychosocial, genetic and neurobiological fields. 2 3 Resilience has been studied in the backdrop of protective and risk factors related to positive or negative psychological outcomes, and also on individual, social and ecological levels.

America, or India, or the world at large remained a backdrop, more or less faint, as the characters maneuvered through their heavy psychological landscape, but the narrow focus rarely felt like weakness.

The violence causes great psychological trauma in addition to physical injuries and the spread of HIV against a backdrop of a failed state in which services are largely unavailable to deliver treatment or protection to victims nor accountability to perpetrators.

Yet this is no niche book for aficionados looking for a brief summer distraction.Instead, cycling is the backdrop for a deeper exploration of the struggle between the physical and the psychological.