Sentence examples for unhappy backdrop from inspiring English sources
In recent weeks sensational kidnappings and robberies have dominated newspaper headlines.Against this unhappy backdrop have appeared growing divisions between the protest movement that launched last year's revolution and the Islamist-dominated parliament.
Young Sonny, as he was known, went to camp, attended the McBurney School on the West Side before being expelled for poor grades, and eventually went to Valley Forge Military Academy, which years later transmogrified into Pencey Prep, the unhappy backdrop of Holden Caulfield's adolescence.
It is an odd and intriguing look at crime scenes, forensic labs and interrogation rooms as a backdrop to the family crises and growing pains of an unhappy teenage girl.
Against this backdrop, in a book that falls into the Library of Congress's politely labeled "problem families" and "interpersonal relations" categories, Mr. Goolrick tells his own unhappy story.
The backdrop is gruesome.
