Sentence examples for tumultuous backdrop from inspiring English sources

Set against this tumultuous backdrop, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the aviation industry is actually standing on the cusp of a new age of technological advancement that should make jet travel greener and more efficient.

As the images coalesce and disintegrate, the tortured story of Soho Eckstein — a wealthy industrialist who resembles Mr. Kentridge more than faintly and often appears as a pinstriped mountain of gluttony, greed and guilt — unfolds against a tumultuous backdrop.

The Story of the Lost Child (Europa) is the fourth and final volume in Elena Ferrante's series of Neapolitan novels, which explore female friendship and creativity against the tumultuous backdrop of Italian political violence and changing social mores.

So that's Paradise, the prime patch of real estate that serves as the tumultuous backdrop to Top Of The Lake (Saturday, 9.10pm, BBC2), Jane "The Piano" Campion's bleak, eccentric six-part drama about child abuse, murder, domestic violence, painful secrets and terrible beards in a remote New Zealand community.

Mr. Wall's biography speeds through Flaubert's life, sketching in the tumultuous historical backdrop of the 19th century with a perfunctory hand.

In between, Mr. Nadas interweaves dozens of plots and the interactions of scores of characters, presenting them against the backdrop of tumultuous 20th-century Hungarian history.

The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet military intervention, the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.

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In November, there was the release of "Sang Penari," a feature film that depicts the unfolding of a love story against the backdrop of that tumultuous time.

With Tony Leung Chin-Wai in the lead role, The Grandmaster covers his tumultuous early life, against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, up until his death.

Sayles's second novel, Union Dues (1977), which follows a West Virginia miner's search for his son against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s, was a finalist for a National Book Award.