Sentence examples for has a serious theme from inspiring English sources
Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green (Cape) is a thunking great doorstep of a book and has a serious theme, being a memoir of its author's struggle with, and recovery from, anorexia.
The jests and practical jokes, which generally depend on a pun, are broadly farcical, often brutal, sometimes obscene; but they have a serious theme.
It has a serious, intelligent theme; set over the past 16 years, the play is about how personal ethics are passed along, one generation to the next, subtly but perceptibly changed like the code in a game of telephone.
Hollywood has a serious case of the festive bug, churning out Christmas-themed films every year.
These two themes correspond with previous studies of parenting and children's experiences when a parent has a serious illness in other countries, settings and populations.
Attempts to revive the form have not been successful, and Christopher Isherwood's Meeting by the River (1967), which has a profoundly serious theme of religious conversion, seems to fail because of the excessive informality and chattiness of the letters in which the story is told.
Raymond Chandler proved that a gifted writer could occupy himself with genre fiction, but Chandler didn't have all that much gift left over — a serious theme would have left him short of analytical tools.
