Sentence examples for recurring backdrop from inspiring English sources

He wasn't half mad". The artist Gordon Young said: "I'd been looking at photographs of stars and the Blackpool Tower was a recurring backdrop to the photos – Eric and Ernie in deck chairs, Ken Dodd, Les Dawson.

Istanbul, the tale of a father identifying his murdered son, becomes particularly poignant against the recurring backdrop of police brutality and a city with one of the country's highest homicide rates.

Mr. Obama, on a diplomatic tour of Asia in which the fiscal condition of the United States has been a recurring backdrop, maintained his silence on Thursday about the particulars of the draft deficit-reduction plan the commission chairmen had released the day before.

Designer Gordon Young said: "I'd been looking at photographs of stars and the Blackpool Tower was a recurring backdrop to the photos - Eric and Ernie in deck chairs, Ken Dodd, Les Dawson.

Writing in the Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Diane Ellen Hamer contrasted "Bechdel's habit of drawing her characters very simply and yet distinctly" with "the attention to detail that she devotes to the background, those TV shows and posters on the wall, not to mention the intricacies of the funeral home as a recurring backdrop".

The findings come against a backdrop of recurring fears, in the United States and abroad, that those rare fever-related seizures may be linked to later autism and developmental problems.

During my visit, I met with more than twenty NGO and UN heads of agencies, both in Kinshasa and Goma, and all agreed that more needs to be done, while also recognizing that new approaches need to be explored to better address recurring displacement with a backdrop of extreme poverty.

But such is the cycle of life in this region – a race for food against a backdrop of recurring conflict – that the best she can hope for is that Tissi will remain safe for the coming months.

Dolven's art tends towards super-sensitive introversion, with her recurring self-portraiture set against backdrops of chilling grandeur.

The city is a recurring setting in the 007 novels and much of the backdrop to Moonraker (the 3rd in the 007 series), which I re-read in preparation for my tour.

The built environment is not a backdrop, rather it is integral and distinctive in its recurring imagery – from abandoned runways, to curvilinear flyovers and those endlessly mysterious drained swimming pools.