Sentence examples for war backdrop from inspiring English sources

Like a riposte to Hollywood's spineless separation between war backdrop and movie-star foreground, Cal wove together history and people.

Retro-styled big-screen outing for the wacky 1960s odd-couple spy series, set against a cold war backdrop.

Despite the cold war backdrop and the snazzy threads, this stylised romp bears as much resemblance to the real 1960s as The Flintstones did to the stone age.

And the closing stages don't even try to be funny, as Toksvig addresses the grim Boer war backdrop to her novel.

The surreal environment, the amazing chess turns, and the cold war backdrop made Fischer one of the most famous people in the world that summer.

The show is set in the 1980s, providing a cold war backdrop, but the 2010 spy round-up served as an inspiration.

Series with a political framework are always at risk of being dated, and the cold war backdrops of these three spy programs definitely reflect an old world order.

The soldiers are portrayed by John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latter of which coming off a star-making turn in Tom Ford's loopy and murderous Nocturnal Animals; despite its post-Iraq-War backdrop, it packs a tense, escapist punch even as it gets its hands dirty with political (and spiritual) qualms.

The Liberian war's backdrop is international neglect.

He describes omnipresent violence at a time when there is no war — a backdrop of brutality, accepted as a given.

At school I was being taught all about the cold war – the backdrop to all of this.