Sentence examples for an ancient theme from inspiring English sources

Another dance on an ancient theme, this time the fall of Troy.

In arguing this, Brooks is following an ancient theme in Western intellectual discourse, emphasizing the otherness of people who practice ways of life different from those in, let us say, Manhattan.

It is possible that Eakins was seeking to reconcile an ancient theme with a modern interpretation; the subject was contemporary, but the poses of some of the figures recall those of classical sculpture.

The Christian, Tolkien notes, is "hemmed in a hostile world", and the monsters are evil spirits: but as the transition was incomplete in the poem, the monsters remain real and the focus remains "an ancient theme: that man, each man and all men, and all their works shall die".

The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.

A dominant ancient theme in theories of learning has been that of association.

Coins appeared as a motif throughout the collection, which had an ancient world theme.

The opening line of his mystical khamriyyah mentions not only wine (now acting as a symbol for the achievement of a transcendent state) but also the ancient theme of the absent beloved.

Grecian gown wraps are also an ideal match to carry on the "ancient" theme.

The pig's head masks were worn by some of the guests at a party with an ancient Greek theme held in Rome for some 2,000 people by Carlo de Romanis, a young Lazio parliamentarian for the PdL.

All the surface features on 67P carry names that follow an ancient Egyptian theme.