In a voice likened to Steinbeck's in works such as The Grapes of Wrath, Bulosan's essay spoke up for those who struggled to survive in the capitalist democracy and was regarded as "haunting and sharp" against the backdrop of Rockwell's feast of plenty.
There, on the front of the Wasatch Range, pyramid peaks cut a sharp silhouette on the backdrop of blue.
The federal government's treatment of gay and lesbian relationships has been a matter of sharp dispute against the backdrop of efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.
The book could be a third shorter, the fulsome imagery toned down, yet it's a riveting story, sweet and sharp as its sugarcane backdrop.
The dispute is occurring against a backdrop of sharp debate over who among the 297,000 registered voters will participate, how many are in the city now and the racial makeup of the city.
After more than four hours of riding, the cyclists ended their 101-mile journey from Padova to this town in the Dolomites, which provides the breathtaking backdrop of sharp, snow-covered mountains that poke the sky.
The relationship between council members and the community groups to which they allocate city money has come into sharp relief against the backdrop of a broader inquiry by federal prosecutors and the city's Department of Investigation into how council members dole out millions of dollars in discretionary money they control to nonprofit agencies that provide a broad range of services.
Moving in brief, spare sections, the story at first cuts back and forth between guiltily anguished recollections of the marriage, notes from Ben's work-in-progress on Sparta, and observations of life at the meat grill, where tensions between the workers begin to mount against a backdrop of sharp knives and butchered carcasses.
Mr Bush's second term, in other words, may see another sharp slowdown not a good backdrop to his domestic revolution.
Against a backdrop of sharp differences on a variety of current public policy issues, new polling by the Pew Clean Energy Program demonstrates strong support from American voters for immediate action on vehicle fuel economy.
