Sentence examples for western backdrop from inspiring English sources

They said they expected the equivalent of a Spaghetti Western backdrop, a hard, mute land where Clint Eastwood could squint and spit.

Against a blue-skied Western backdrop, yowling cats are shown being driven over sagebrush-studded terrain, forced across a surging river and, yes, even beckoned down from trees.

While trying to run a trading post at the depths of the Great Depression, Harry Goulding heard that a Hollywood director was looking for the perfect Western backdrop for his next oater.

As secular scripture, the Western was a natural backdrop for romantic heroism.

These videos, along with Coldplay's, continue a long, dubious tradition of depicting India as a backdrop for western fun and enlightenment.

With the vast expanses of Western landscape as a backdrop, Mr. Lamson's action has a sweet pathos about it: he's a tiny man making his mark in the wilderness.

If ever there were an instance in which the term was historically fitting it would seem that a Western set against the backdrop of slavery — a Southern — would be it.

He says that he was frustrated to see his native country used only as a backdrop for Western women and clothing, and that the experience pushed him to make Morocco a prominent subject in his own work.

In 2010, Mr. Shih created a series of images for Christian Dior's Shanghai boutique that featured Western models against a backdrop of identically dressed Chinese clones, addressing Chinese collectivism in a humorous way.

Against a backdrop of Western-style advertisements and television images, the couple struggle, confined by gender roles and a lack of education.

The two huge fires that torched thousands of acres of forests and sagebrush and nearly destroyed Pioneertown, once a popular backdrop for Westerns, have had banner headlines in the Los Angeles Times; but then they were only 100 miles (160 km) east of the city.