"compelling themes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to topics that strongly interest or attract attention. For example, "This novel contains several compelling themes, such as injustice and perseverance."
Success in shaping public policy, Mr. Bolick said, often requires "translating complex issues into compelling themes".
One of the most compelling themes of the April 29 wedding will be Britain's odd-couple pair of "queens-in-waiting," Ms. Middleton and Camilla.
One of the compelling themes in your book is the economy's growing reliance on complex financial instruments — tools that allow investors to speculate on the price of commodities without actually owning them.
On the eve of an Olympics shrouded in controversy about steroids and concerns about security, Westbrook brings us back to three compelling themes of Olympic competition: endurance, determination and possibility.
(It's the '70s; I don't get it: Why not Jackson Browne?) Amid all the decade jumping, what has been most dispiriting about the current season is the show's willingness to abandon many of the larger and more compelling themes that grounded the elaborate plot: the struggles between faith and reason; the indictments of extreme capitalism, the futility of recovery.
Where the emphasis is on storytelling, and surfing serves as a gorgeous backdrop for compelling themes that all humans -- not just us lucky ones who spend an inordinate amount of time hunting bumps of energy in the ocean -- can relate to.
The underlying and compelling theme of the work is choice.
Yet "Approved" has a compelling theme for the young: the identity issues arising from adoption.
DANIEL McDERMON 'YOU'VE GOT TheE' The summer's most compelling new television series, "Orange Is the New Black," came complete with an equally compelling theme song, "You've Got Time" by Regina Spektor.
"The notion of the virtuous citizen locked in battle against big government, big business and a decadent elite," he writes, "was the single most compelling theme of the 1970s".
On the whole, post Blair/Brown, Labour politicians have been hopeless at explaining why they act in a particular way – their disparate policies appearing from nowhere without a compelling theme.
