Sentence examples for seedy backdrop from inspiring English sources

Venice's heyday at the height of the mythology making was from 1905, but when the Great Depression set in the '30s and War came along in the '40s, Venice was providing an increasingly seedy backdrop.

It is a tilted facade, whose obverse provides the seedy, faded backdrop to the ducal court, but which revolves to reveal a tangle of corrugated metal, wire netting and rickety stairs - the interiors of Rigoletto's house and Sparafucile's inn.

The backdrop of a seedy apartment block – where everything starts life 'as a bad smell' – is made to crawl with roaches, to swarm with the monochrome, whirling dreams of a lovelorn caretaker, and to frame the story of a dainty mother and daughter: one an actress, the other a paper cutout who can take off her own arm and wag it as a joke.

That's about the only way to justify Zhang Yimou's hothouse melodrama about convent girls, saucy prostitutes and a seedy American expatriate (gamely played by Christian Bale) set against the backdrop of the Nanjing massacre.

If ghosts ever lingered around motels, they'd do so in Hollywood, where some of the motels are so wonderfully seedy and old that they seem destined to be the backdrop for a haunting.

So it has gone this season, though Coney Island remains pretty much what it was 30 years ago -- a cliche of seedy decay, a shrunken little strip of mostly second-rate amusements set against a charmless backdrop of high-rise housing projects.

Once such a scruffy area that the novelist Nelson Algren used it as a backdrop for his toughs, Bucktown is Chicago's neighborhood of the moment, one where bistros are pushing out seedy bars.

"Too seedy".

Seedy cake!

Backdrop: Nightmarish.

The backdrop?