Sentence examples for big theme from from inspiring English sources

"When Brahms wrote his first symphony, he was accused of having used a big theme from Beethoven's Ninth.

His talent for musical brainstorming goes back to his high-school days, in Washington, D.C.; his idol was Leonard Bernstein, and when the maestro came to town to conduct Stravinsky, Steel persuaded him to climb up the bell tower of the National Cathedral and bang out the big theme from "The Firebird" on the carillon... Steel seems to have picked up on a trend in taste that others have overlooked.

(It's no accident that JJ Abrams's sexy, successful 2009 rebrand "borrowed" most of its big themes from The Wrath of Khan).

It's tempting to draw out big themes from events like this - about crime and race in South Africa, violence against women, the implications of disability and so on.

Aside from retailing, the big theme for 1999 was networking and communications.

Networking is a big theme for the ForbesWoman online community.

"A big theme coming from the entrepreneurs was that the prevailing 'feeling of the possible' in the Bay Area meant that you really felt like you could give things a go in this environment and hence, a lot more people take the leap to start a business knowing that even if they fail, they can have another lash.

Instead, the rank-and-file Democrats in the East Ward and around the state who gripe about Mr. McGreevey -- and not all of them do gripe -- seem to be wishing for some bigger themes from the governor other than how the budget will be balanced, and a bigger vision of how the state should be run, and a stronger sense of direction for his administration.

Is it that his big theme, the return from war, doesn't hold the same fascination as it once did?

Mr. Sale argues that the big theme of contemporary history, from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the evolution of the United Nations from 51 nations in 1945 to 192 now, is the breakup of great empires.

It drove everyone towards their children, which is a big theme in the season, from Roger's mothers death onward.