Sentence examples for old themes from inspiring English sources

The other two are based on old themes.

"District and Circle" plays rich variations on old themes.

Ishiguro returns to his old themes, but he robs his shadows of their darkness.

He wrote with uncommon frankness and wit, manipulating old themes and forms with imagination and originality.

All his old themes are there, as ever, but this book cares more about protecting innocence.

They were youngish ladies, whose versions of old themes are encrusted with rococo artifice.

It was, he told her, a reworking of old themes, just another book about schools.

The result of Donoghue's canvassing centuries of literature is a narrative the author presents as a "family tree" of centuries-old themes "hybridizing and mutating in every generation".

In the framework of this dystopian world, Saci Lloyd explores age-old themes of love and betrayal, of fear and loyalty and the relationship between individuals and society.

"The shortlist was so fantastically diverse," she said, "[but] this is an extraordinary book - a very original miniature world, with lots of contemporary and age-old themes.

But much of the debate today around these centuries-old themes of us vs. them and newcomer vs. old-timer is missing an essential point: In the age of the Internet, the jet airplane and the multinational company, the very concepts of immigration, citizenship and even statehood are changing.