Sentences with phrase «against tumultuous events»
«This «lumbering animal of a story,» as he calls it, combines the appeal of a family saga set against tumultuous events with the technical bravura of innovative fiction.
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Life - changing events for this protagonist (her father losing his job, acceptance into college, the loss of her virginity) bump up against funnier, more inconsequential ones; it's one of the most authentic depictions of that tumultuous period on the cusp of adulthood I've ever seen in a film.
The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet military intervention, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.
Against a backdrop of a collage of newspaper headlines reporting the tumultuous events that defined the Cold War times, slithering snake skeletons, clips foreshadowing the evens of the game, and mirrored images of crawling smoke, the song that plays is one that would be remembered fondly by gamers.