Sentence examples for shadowy backdrop from inspiring English sources

The shadowy backdrop in "Never Let Me Go" is genetic engineering and associated technologies.

It is against this shadowy backdrop that "rogue" is rapidly emerging as a euphemism for "losing".

Children who figure in such stories are merely part of the shadowy backdrop against which the toys' own tales evolve.

His Brooklyn is a shadowy backdrop to an intensely imagined personal journey, the poignant history of Eilis Lacey and her sister, Rose.

Elsinore, for instance, is no longer a shadowy backdrop but a crucial part of the experience: in countless productions, including those by Yuri Lyubimov, Richard Eyre and Nicholas Hytner, it has become a network of sinister espionage.

Henry Green, who somehow managed to combine novel-writing with superintendence of the family engineering business, spent most of the next ten years on what he called a serious comedy about "bohemocracy", a novel that would, as his biographer Jeremy Treglown puts it, "see the bright young things against a shadowy, obliquely presented backdrop of the darkening socio-political situation of the 1930s".

But he is also expert at arranging his figurines against shadowy and suggestive backdrops: post-fascist Japan, in "A Pale View of Hills" (1982) and "An Artist of the Floating World" (1986); an unidentified Central European town undergoing an indeterminate cultural crisis, in "The Unconsoled" (1995); Shanghai at the time of the Sino-Japanese War, in "When We Were Orphans" (2000).

The advertisement opens like a French film noir, showing portraits of melancholy-looking men standing against a shadowy black-and-white backdrop of menacing New York City streets.

His use of a shadowy curtain as a semi-opaque backdrop through which the five-member orchestra can be glimpsed deepens the production's melancholy mood.

Dressed head to toe in black, Ms. Mosshart prowled a shadowy stage against a leopard-patterned backdrop, shaking her long black hair and stretching toward the crowd with one boot on the monitor.

The discussion also takes place against a backdrop of a growing number of shadowy, often semiofficial armed forces that operate under an array of titles, but that ultimately have only tenuous ties to the central government.