Sentence examples for unsettling backdrop from inspiring English sources

Although many analysts expect that a default by Greece on its debts will eventually be averted, the political uncertainty in Greece is providing an unsettling backdrop for investors.

Campaign aides said they could not recall a contest fought against such an uncertain and unsettling backdrop since 1968, when Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey battled as an increasingly bloody war was being waged in Vietnam, polarizing Americans at home.

Against this unsettling backdrop, Rickstad tells the story of a few days in the life of Jessup Burke, a lonely 16-year-old with a dreamy inner life and a set of remarkably snaggled teeth that he compulsively brushes to a gleaming white.

Yet against this unsettling backdrop, a handful of key musical figures stood out through massive commercial success or by simply creating moving, sometimes exhilarating work that challenged themselves and their audiences.

Yet even with this unsettling backdrop, another of those innumerable international climate change conferences -- this one in Doha, Qatar -- transpired in which the can was essentially kicked down the road.

Although demolished trees provide the film its unsettling backdrop, its real focus is the three families, and the meditative rhythm of their lives: hands rooting for potatoes, scythes mowing through swathes of cane, fish cleavers thumping against chopping blocks.

Pyongyang finds the restlessly peripatetic singer boggling with horrified fascination at the North Korean capital over a weird, unsettling musical backdrop of tinny drum machine beats, vocal samples and organ; Coxon's guitar sounds ghostly, it shivers and trembles, perfectly matching the lyric's alienation.

Australia's largely unsettled – and often unsettling – interior is a superb backdrop for cinematic representations of life after the apocalypse, a perfect metaphor for all that is ungovernable.

The intimate focus, juxtaposed with the unsettling beauty of the backdrop and the eerie stillness of the aftermath, brings a novel twist to the well-worn disaster movie format.

His death is even more haunting because the love he showed took place against the backdrop of unsettling violence, both real and imagined, both in structural forces and intimate spaces, often conjured or measured by his own pen.

Ford's West rarely looked more lovely, but it's a backdrop to sinister and unsettling notions of racism, false hope and bitterness.