Sentence examples for world the backdrop from inspiring English sources

In our behind-the-scenes video, Nackashi talks about how he and Paloma drew inspiration for the look and feel of the video from seminal dystopian sci-fi flicks like Repo Man, Blade Runner and Phantom of the Paradise, making the cyber-influenced, futuristic, Gotham-esque world the backdrop for a sort of disconnected romance.

In our making-of video, Nackashi talks about how he and Paloma drew inspiration for the look and feel of the video from seminal dystopian sci-fi flicks like Repo Man, Blade Runner, and Phantom of the Paradise, making the cyber-influenced, futuristic, Gotham-esque world the backdrop for a sort of disconnected romance.

It is a marvel to see students excited about the beauty of the natural world against the backdrop of the city, and about harvesting a carrot or a head of lettuce from fresh earth.

This joyless world is the backdrop for the moral coming of age of Chuck Baxter Mr. Hayess), an unremarkable young man on the make who discovers an unexpected route up the ladder.

San Francisco had focused much of its bid on its reputation as a cosmopolitan city, one of the top United States destinations for tourists from around the world and the backdrop for countless motion pictures.

Prince Charles's favourite architects have accused the head of England's national architectural review body of "overt prejudice" after he made a barbed attack on the heir to the throne's love of traditional buildings, and heaped praise on the resolutely modernist designs that will be beamed around the world as the backdrop to next summer's games.

What is at stake is far more than the fate of a small patch of real estate: it is the historical legacy that earned Harlem the title of the "Negro capital of the world", the urban backdrop for great dramas of the American 20th century; where Malcolm X was assassinated, Marcus Garvey marched, reds and blacks rioted, and everyone from Cab Calloway to James Brown performed.

A continental approach moves away from neuro-centric approaches to address how such gadgets may affect our sense of embodiment and being-in-the-world, against the backdrop of broader socio-cultural developments such as cognitive capitalism and emerging collaborations and/or increasing tensions between ICT devices and humans (Lemmens 2015a, Lemmens 2015b).  .

For me now, the biggest thrill when I DJ is to look out into the crowds and watch people get lost in their own worlds to the backdrop of my music.

A researcher at Bristol University has trained his powerful supercomputer not at predicting the earth's future climate, but on the fictional world of Middle Earth – the backdrop for JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Fischer and Spassky were playing for the world title against the backdrop of the cold war.