One of its most important features is its capacity for absorbing contrasting themes, such as the story of Lancelot's love for Guinevere, Arthur's queen, and the Quest of the Grail; another feature is its ability to grow through continuations or elaborations of earlier themes insufficiently developed.
The theme of child abuse lingers and is there to underline the overwhelming importance of all that is happening – common or garden-variety unabused loneliness is, of course, nowhere near dramatic enough – but the drama fails to absorb this theme, or to do justice to it.
At the ripe age of 69, Koolhaas has selected a vastly encompassing theme, "Absorbing Modernity: 1914-2014," to be tackled, through the construction of thematic pavilions by each participating nation.
Bloom, going further, absorbed Freudian themes into his theory.
The first concert was a long, grim, but absorbing affair, addressing themes such as the Holocaust, September 11th, and eternal Slavic despair.
Tweaking parameters around this general theme (thick absorbing, thin highly scattering), gave me good reflectance and transmittance values for each slab.
Voters tune out, absorbing really big new themes that seem to fit their own prejudices but skipping the boring bits where misleading data is unpicked or the argument challenged.
He became so absorbed in his theme that he was moved to prefigure Milly's death as dragging everybody and everything down with it, like a great ship sinking or a big business collapsing.
That's the theme of an absorbing new special issue of McSweeney's magazine, produced in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Peter Ackroyd finds it here, there and everywhere.His magisterial study of the theme is at once absorbing and frustrating.
And this mismatch between expectation and achievement forms a compelling theme of Jonathan Phillips's absorbing new book, the first detailed account of this "forgotten" crusade to be published since the 19th century.
