Unifying idea

Usage examples of theme.

CHAPTER 104 The Fossil Whale From his mighty bulk the whale affords a most congenial theme whereon to enlarge, amplify, and generally expatiate.

And he developed his skills as a soapbox orator, specializing in anticlerical themes.

One way that this archetypal association manifests itself in dreams is that there is a tendency for the quality of light in dreams to be metaphoric of the quality of waking consciousness that has already been brought to the main theme of the dream.

Christian mythos embodies ancient, archetypal themes found around the world from the earliest periods.

Summoning the same willing suspension of disbelief that makes books and movies work, the five lands of Disneyland were architecturally and ornamentally themed to evoke different American dreams.

Our little theme song-9t Bannerman was in good THE DouBLE ImAGE 255 humor again.

Greeley made this case the chief theme of his letter, and insisted that the policy which excluded the chosen representative from a State, whoever he might be, was incompatible with peace and good will throughout the Union.

Such was the demand for his Vitebsk theme, and the ruthlessness with which Chagall exploited it, that critics accused him of merchandizing his own exotica as art.

She talked about him at great length, and Mandrake wondered if he only imagined there was a sort of defiance in her insistence on this awkward theme.

In medieval Europe certain themes began to develop around the millenarian experience.

Another early millenarian theme concerns the relationship between a spiritually elevated sense of mission and a harrowing earthbound reality.

He can play tricks on the reader, hiding important information, misleading and misdirecting, then bringing back forgotten themes and characters at the moment of greatest effect.

While not everyone--yet--shared the generals opinion that the war was an unmitigated disaster, the failure of this gathering to include representatives of the fourteen Molt themes made it less colorful in a way that no amount of feathers and cloth-of-gold could repair.

These would be staging points for the Molt refugees, the females and the prepubescent males driven from what should have been the inviolable core of the theme holdings.

The antechamber seemed a particularly suitable location for the signing since it--reminds the representatives of other themes that our troops are here without Molt sufferance.