Roxio's program had mostly themed templates (births, birthdays, sporting events and weddings), but at least they were attractive.
Primary schools were turning away from discrete subjects even before he pronounced: a 2007 survey found a third taught mostly "themed" lessons; another 40% were planning to do so soon.
Unlike the first album, which features mostly character themes and background music, this compilation features themes from battles and worlds.
Yet some young poets really are nervous of citing Bukowski as an influence or tackling his mostly universal themes.
They were literary, mostly, exploring themes of masculinity in the modern world, and they did not sell well.
Not that it mattered greatly: Mr. Glass gave the strings attractive, mostly scalelike themes, but they were repeated often enough that you could catch them unimpeded between the soloists' barrages.
Next day we visited several houses where family teams were busily engaged in producing carvings, mostly on themes of nature or religion – toucans and hummingbirds among angels and saints, and all of them painted in bright colours.
The call to convert is no rhetorical flourish; Islamic jurisprudence requires that non-believers be given a chance before they are attacked.These are mostly familiar themes, though intelligence analysts will search the sermon (and a second internet message) for clues about his intentions, whereabouts (thought to be Pakistan's border region) and state of health.
And so the Democrats have tried to run a national campaign this year based upon three tiny, and mostly bogus, themes: scaring senior citizens about the imminent privatization of Social Security; pandering to senior citizens by proposing an expensive and ill-considered prescription-drug plan; and blaming George W. Bush — in vague terms, without offering an alternative — for the economic downturn.
Like his two previous works, "Nowhere Man" and "The Question of Bruno," they deal mostly with themes of cultural identity, conflict and displacement, often featuring characters of Eastern European origin who have been set adrift and are struggling, in ways both poignant and bitterly humorous, to assimilate America as it assimilates them.
