"perilous theme" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is dangerous or potentially harmful. For example, "The story follows a young doctor who must confront a perilous theme - the ethics of medical experimentation."
This is especially perilous when such heavy themes as the amorality of children in their nascent sexuality and the ambiguous nature of their unconditional love are at stake.
These predominated over more traditional forms of art, which were included only when they contributed to the general theme - the insecure, perilous and unjust state of the world today.
In Kiev, feast into the wee hours then hit one of the city's outrageous theme bars for a perilous pyrotechnic libation.
Two themes persist throughout their perilous odyssey: getting wasted and awkward dancing. .
Invited by University President Lee C. Bollinger to deliver the first in a series of Presidential Lectures, Stone discussed themes from his new book, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime.
Her novel's more resonant theme is that social mobility is perilous.
The perilous maritime journey was not only a Greek poetic theme, but part of Greek lived experience.
The lighthouse in these perilous waters is Gymkhana, the high-end Raj-era-themed Indian restaurant, serving blissful biryanis, chat, methi keema, paneer tikka kebabs and Chettinad duck dosa.
THE HARTLEPOOL SPY is a dark comedy on the timeless themes of xenophobia, groupthink and fake news, about the perilous mental landscape of suspended disbelief.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The story has some conspicuously Hitchcockian elements — an ordinary man drawn into a lonely and perilous vortex of crime and violence, as well as certain fairly famous themes and tropes of plot construction that bear the master's mark — but it's no pastiche or neoclassical homage.
