Sentence examples for almost theme from inspiring English sources
It's an almost theme park, with shops built into a low-lying village that changes its geography and century on every block, from ancient Rome to New Orleans' Bourbon Street -- anything but Macao.
Down on newly hip Orchard and Eldridge Streets, among the exclusive no-signage clubs and Zagat-rated fusion eateries, what was once an authentic urban jungle has almost themed itself out of existence, turning a lot of the cops into park rangers.
Jagged fragments of almost-themes explode and are instantly extinguished.
"Cineplexes are almost like theme park rides now.
Indeed love is almost a theme of his work.
The writers' disappointment in missing out on the summer became almost a theme of the night.
Although Mr. Romney's speech was aimed at seizing on Americans' frustrations with the pace of job creation — the almost certain theme of his fall campaign — it is unclear how much voters will punish the president for the sluggish recovery.
We have lost faith in so many things -- love, work, raising our children in a manner that will keep them out of the federal penitentiary -- that our low-grade distress is an almost constant theme in the modern novel.
Mr. Dello Joio has built this piece around an arching, almost Baroque theme, and while his harmonic language edges toward prickly dissonances, the salient features of his music are thoroughly traditional.
His new piece, "Seht die Sonne," takes its title from Schoenberg's early, ultra-Romantic song cycle "Gurre-Lieder," with its C-major paean to the sun; here, a beamlike drone on C sets the music in motion, together with a swaggering, almost bluesy theme in the horns.
