The phrase "a theme that seems" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a recurring idea or concept that appears to be present in a text, artwork, or situation.
Example: "In the novel, a theme that seems to resonate with readers is the struggle for identity."
Alternatives: "a theme that appears" or "a theme that looks like".
Having control over a child's upbringing is a theme that seems to resonate across tax brackets.
The Conservatives, once known north of the border as the Unionist Party, are taking up a theme that seems to have increasing importance to English voters.
In the Bush family, Texas jockeys with Maine as the favored homeland, a theme that seems to have continued with the George W. Bush Presidential Center, on the campus of Southern Methodist University, in Dallas.
Yet, he said, "it is always present, in the form of an atmosphere in which something can always happen". "It is a theme that seems to me, like the Shoah, that you end up bastardizing if you take away its sacrosanct nature and use it as a theme for fiction," he said.
In "Bridge...," Ms. Hogarth and her five dancers will cross the Williamsburg Bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn in a free, site-specific piece that addresses a theme that seems a little less true since Sept. 11: the fragility of human endeavor amid the systems and structures of the city.
It is a theme that seems to have informed the youthful Republican congressman's every step, from his decision at age 4 to jettison his given name of Piyush for that of a character in the television series "The Brady Bunch" to the attentive faith-infused courting of conservatives that led to his victory on Saturday with 54percentt of the vote.
Throughout her writings, she touched repeatedly on a theme that seemed to vex the rebels themselves: whether they stood for anything anymore, having evolved from their idealistic origins into a force that comfortably financed itself from the drug trade and survived by kidnappings, extortion and the forced recruitment of children as combatants.
Add to the elements above a prominent theme that seems lifted from Liszt's First Piano Concerto, a brief boogie-woogie, passages that sound like Stravinsky imitating Poulenc imitating Stravinsky, and a luminous, expressive Mahlerian adagio, and you can see how listeners might easily mistake this embarrassment of riches for a baffling miscellany.
A collectively expanding solidarity is perhaps an overarching theme that seems to bind the ideals of work (The rise of humaneness, see ch. 3).
On the euro crisis, the theme that seems sure to overshadow all others in a German vote set for September 2013, Ms. Merkel has walked a tightrope, appeasing her bailout-averse domestic audience with tough rhetoric while keeping just enough money flowing to Europe's battered periphery to ensure the euro train does not go off the rails on her watch.
And with unemployment at record lows and the economy enjoying its longest post-war expansion, poverty and labour rights are not the hot issues they once were.But there is one strong theme that seems to unify many of the protesters.
