Sentence examples for sad background from inspiring English sources

This is the sad background againstwhich Nicaragua must now conduct its second election.

After finding early success demonstrating that "real women" could be in adverts too, Dove has been furthering its self-imposed mission as the champion of women's self-esteem via a combination of Science + YouTube + Sad Background Music.

Indeed, it has conducted a number of similar, and wildly successful, experiments over the last few years, and has pretty much perfected a formula of calculated social experiment + statistics + sad background music + earnest message about beauty ideals.

She came from a sad background and was desperate for our love and attention, and (without any actual talent) she managed to stay relevant longer than most Oscar winners.

There's also the syrupy Love theme, composed for the film, which later became notorious as the soppy-sad background music for Simon Bates' Our Tune on Radio 1.

Graham Greene, who published "Our Man in Havana" in 1958, later recalled, "I enjoyed the louche atmosphere of Batista's city and I never stayed long enough to become aware of the sad political background of arbitrary imprisonment and torture".

And, while that fact makes me sad, my low-income background made me practical.

She had once heard the girl play, over the long-distance line, a thin sad song in the background at Martin's Manhattan apartment.

If it's a video, there's often sad music in the background and words like "tragic", "desperate" and "plight" are used.

The commentary provides the film with the complicated point of view, the detachment, the alienation, the odd play of foreground and background, the sad tone of attentive unease and retrospective remorse that we associate with, well, the classic modern novel.

"If I turn on ESPN in ten years and there's slow-motion footage of J. R. Smith missing a game-winning shot with sad music in the background, I will literally put my fist through something," he said.