Class distinction is really a minor theme of the opera, and what the work says about human nature is sometimes sidelined, leaving it to Verdi's wondrous score to make points on its own.
One of the largest Hindu temples ever built, it contains the largest bas-relief in the world, depicting the churning of the ocean of milk, a minor theme of Indian architecture but one of the dominant narratives in Khmer temples.
I have chosen this image with care, since movies are a minor theme throughout "The Black Swan," and the Luxor, the theater in which Baby plays hooky week after week, is a major one.
The wife-of, as distinct from widow-of, method of conferring power has been a relatively minor theme, found mostly in the nether parts of the country — one thinks of Governors Ma Ferguson, of Texas, and, especially, Lurleen Wallace, of Alabama, through whom George ruled when term limits forced him out of the state house.
Race is only a minor theme in "The Outsider," but there is no evidence in the book that Wright regards racism as a peculiar case, and "The Outsider" reads, without strain, as an extension of the idea he was developing at the end of "Native Son" — that racial oppression is just another example of the pleasure the hammer takes in hitting the nail.
They are a minor theme of course, but in his hands, France and the French radiate optimism, gaiety, sheer fun.
So much cinema is content with small fry – minor themes and manageable topics.
I managed to work in some minor themes from my previous novels.
ONE of the intifada's minor themes has been a persistent call that the Palestinian Authority should clean up its act.
Up to now, though, internal security and domestic Communism have been distinctly minor themes in the campaign, and this, too, has been a surprise to Goldwaterologists, who were certain that in due time a generous amount of McCarthyism would be stirred into the Goldwater brew.
Transcriptions were made of these sessions, and analyzed for major and minor themes.
