A vital theme is our common humanity, poignantly illustrated by relationships between people whose nationality and race put them on opposite sides of a deadly conflict, but who defy persecution and danger to befriend and protect "the other".
That's the vital theme of the film: how far self-delusion can take you before that self starts to disintegrate.
Oldrich Danek's play Jak snadné je vládnout aneb Karel IV ("How Easy Is It to Reign, or Charles IV") pursued the eternally vital theme of the individual's moral responsibility to society.
The ground work for his successes had certainly been laid by others: Michael III, who broke the power of Melitene at Lalakaon; Basil I, who destroyed the Paulicians; Leo VI the Wise, who founded the vital theme of Mesopotamia; and Empress Zoe, who extended Byzantine influence again into Armenia and founded the theme of Lykandos.
He has dropped some of the vital themes of his early candidacy, including his withering criticism of Mr. Bush's abuses of power, and he wavered on illegal wiretapping.
It was unclear from Roberto Menichetti's overworked Burberry collection what vital theme he was serving by putting models in fattening layers of cotton.
As the novel sweeps from the 1890's to the 1940's, it touches on such vital themes as the closing of the frontier, the shift from agriculture to industry, immigration, environmentalism and feminism.
Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means (published 1963, but set in 1945) is the ur-novel of women living together: "love and money were the vital themes in all the bedrooms and dormitories" of the May of Teck Club.
Grohl would then go through a transcript of their extensive conversations, notching vital themes and phrases.
This raises fundamental questions over how coherent portfolios of policy interventions across vital themes can best be advanced and managed.
