Here Cody satirically alludes to the great and painful theme of high school reunions: how the passage of time has relentlessly dragged women's status down.
The search for French cyclists of quality is a constant, and often painful, theme in the Tour and another one emergedyesterday when the youngest rider in the race, Thibaut Pinot, won the stage with a perfectly timed attack over the final climb and a brave effort to hold off the eight-strong group that included the "heads" of the race.
Still, the themes and tensions are there, the special, painful themes of Israeli society underlie everything the writers publish.
To put it crudely (and I admit there are many exceptions), we now have a spectacular mall cinema that favors sensation over emotion, and a small, intense art cinema, for the remaining art houses (and, more recently, cable and the Internet), centered on intimate relations and difficult, crabby, even painful themes.
As with a show like "BoJack Horseman," the more painful themes of "Fleabag" would be difficult to absorb if it weren't for how legitimately hilarious the show is: smutty-giggly, caustic, observant about the ugliness of both sexes, and occasionally surreal.
He handles the most delicate and painful themes with a pastoral compassion that invites readers to find hope in their own struggles.
Progress can be painful and one theme of the last 40 years is of absolute certainties being challenged and unravelled on the journey from resentment to forgiveness and acceptance, some further down the road than others.
The play deals with familiar Cuban themes: painful longing, fractured identity and ambivalence about leaving to seek a new life.
This image of a woman being feted on TV — with a kind of gleeful, summer-camp abandon — for being so good at her job, and going on to bigger, self-generated projects, brought to mind a related, though much more painful, dilation on the theme of women at work in the most recent episode of "Mad Men".
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet This image of a woman being feted on TV — with a kind of gleeful, summer-camp abandon — for being so good at her job, and going on to bigger, self-generated projects, brought to mind a related, though much more painful, dilation on the theme of women at work in the most recent episode of "Mad Men".
Despite its love-story quality, Goldman says that the themes of painful nostalgia and desperation in "Clara" are consistent with Bolaño's other work.
