Sentence examples for prime themes from inspiring English sources

H. Lawrence, and Fitzgerald's friend Ernest Hemingway, whose prime themes are virility and vitality, the physical energy and mental discipline which carry a sexual charge.

And for the next hour, she introduced the prime themes of the opening of the "Iliad": conflict, the battle between Achilles and Agamemnon, the immortality of the gods and the mortality of humans.

This is a novel mystifyingly overlooked by Virginia Woolf in her 1926 essay On Being Ill, in which she bemoans literature's failure to make illness one of its "prime themes" alongside "love and battle and jealousy".

Fitzgerald's literary and personal conception of the aphrodisiac power of money, though, was remote to two of the most important writers of the day — D. H. Lawrence, and Fitzgerald's friend Ernest Hemingway, whose prime themes are virility and vitality, the physical energy and mental discipline which carry a sexual charge.

Mobile quarterbacks are at a premium, cover cornerbacks remain vital, bigger receivers still rule, tight ends have a new place in the passing game and linebackers who can defend the run and pass equally remain scarce -- those are among the prime themes through 11 weeks of the N.F.L. season.

In her essay "On Being Ill" Virginia Woolf wondered why the sickbed has not been among "the prime themes of literature", and indeed, as Dillon shows us, Marcel Proust's bed was "a well-provisioned craft in which he set sail on a darkened ocean" (a far cry from Heinrich Heine's Matratzengruft or "mattress-grave").

Again, the prime theme was "ask" -- don't keep things in, seek advice, counseling, help.

The subject of role-playing became a prime theme of his work, and what he did with it made him one of the most secretly influential of all filmmakers.

The prime topic was handicapping the auction for Vivendi Universal's film and television studios, cable channels and theme parks.

Mr. Quayle runs an investment firm with his brother and has made restoring the economy his prime campaign theme.

Continuing on the prime ministerial theme, Amis's "Everyday Drinking" provides the recipe for Queen Victoria's Tipple: 1/2 tumbler red wine and — brace yourself — Scotch.