"Paul establishes a theme and knows how to develop it; he completely understands classical composition.
The overture, "Assault and Battery", establishes a theme: Chadwick's drumfire, a cannonade that propels and impels the music throughout.
The book establishes a theme of spiritual estrangement and homesickness that has persisted in Guo's subsequent output.
For instance, Haines's multifamily office in Alabama will help clients establish a theme for their philanthropic giving, create a family foundation and visit potential recipients.
In preparation, he and I bought some ridiculously expensive father/son matching swimming trunks, thus establishing a theme of boys-on-tour camaraderie.
About half a minute in, a cohort of brass kicks up an Eastern European ruckus, setting the scene and establishing a theme.
— The mischievous sound operators at Bryant-Denny Stadium tried to establish a theme for No. 9 Alabama's game against No. 2 Auburn on Friday afternoon during pregame warm-ups.
He was barely in the West Wing before the Onion declared, in a headline, "SHIRTLESS BIDEN WASHES TRANS AM IN WHITE HOUSE DRIVEWAY," establishing a theme — "Amtrak Joe," the hell-raiser at the end of the bar — that is so enduring that it obscures the fact that he is a lifelong teetotaller.
Create a Class Photo Exhibit As a class, establish a theme, whether "eating," "holidays," "identity," "family" or anything else, and invite everyone to bring in one or more photos from their own or their family's photo albums that illustrate it.
But I retroactively understand what I do by listening to exactly that period of jazz: when you listen to Coltrane doing My Favourite Things, he can do it for 50 minutes because at the beginning he establishes a theme and then he gets back to it at the end.
