While many are Israeli, others span varied genres, nations, themes and styles.
Miliband's "one nation" theme has the potential to appeal to all three.
Disraeli's one-nation theme said instead of being divided, the nation should be united by common passions, mutual concern and support,.
Britain's Labour leader Ed Miliband, for example, will have been delighted to hear Obama invoke the "one nation" theme, which is at the heart of his own attempt to reposition Labour in the UK.
"We've got to be the voice speaking up for the young couple in Dartford, as well as the young couple in Darlington," she said, echoing the ubiquitous one nation theme.
Very emotional COMMENT FROM JM: thank god for female senators and representatives! making the congress less monochromatic COMMENT FROM JM: and nice connection of campuses opening their doors to military recruiters to his "one nation" theme STEVE COLL: It's a better, adult way of framing the decline narrative, this.
He has spent the year developing his One Nation theme and slowly outlining at least some policies, the most important of which was the party's broad acceptance of the government's spending plans.
As he did in his previous two debates with Mr. Obama, he shifted to the middle, and at times he even sounded the nation-building theme the president talked about as a candidate in 2008 and abandoned after he was elected.
Military rule was replaced by a new military-backed civilian government in Burma in 2010, and President Obama made "engagement" with the reclusive South-east Asian nation a theme of foreign policy in his first term - one that came to unexpected fruition after Thein Sein came to power in April 2011.
"The Casual Vacancy" is not a whodunnit but, rather, a rural comedy of manners that, having taken on state-of-the-nation social themes, builds into black melodrama.
Socially conscious and Socialist-inclined with nation-building themes, they resonated in — and maybe even helped to define — a newly independent India busy inventing itself.
