Yet "Approved" has a compelling theme for the young: the identity issues arising from adoption.
On the whole, post Blair/Brown, Labour politicians have been hopeless at explaining why they act in a particular way – their disparate policies appearing from nowhere without a compelling theme.
I think this is a compelling theme, not only for mystery and thriller writers, but about life in general.
Though not considered a particularly compelling theme for a pop album, negotiations before sex can feel stilted and transactional; it was decoding these interactions that persuaded her to make Slugger.
The construction of 'poor people' and 'poor places' in terms of 'them' not 'us' was a similarly compelling theme which pervaded the data uniformly across all post code areas.
DANIEL McDERMON 'YOU'VE GOT TheE' The summer's most compelling new television series, "Orange Is the New Black," came complete with an equally compelling theme song, "You've Got Time" by Regina Spektor.
The district's high school history textbook, "American Voices," calls racial, ethnic and religious diversity the nation's most compelling theme, saying this is sometimes a strength, sometimes a challenge.
Nina, also befriended by a sassy kleptomaniac called Toni who takes her on a thieving spree, is no one's daughter.Here Mr Petzold taps into a compelling German theme: that of emptiness, of something missing, of one generation trying, and often failing, to connect with another.
When citizens heard Al's signature song, Let's Stay Together, on the radio, they took it as a compelling campaign theme.
"The notion of the virtuous citizen locked in battle against big government, big business and a decadent elite," he writes, "was the single most compelling theme of the 1970s".
The best bits, though, are her memories of growing up in 1960s New York in an Italian-Russian immigrant family (there was no Jell-O at their table) and her short biographies of such figures as Julia Child, the American cook with a love of French cuisine who "transformed cooking into entertainment".Another compelling theme is feminism and food.
