So in 1985 I sat down in my student apartment to begin a novel which would be playful and gothic, harking back to Hogg and Stevenson, updating the divided-self theme of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and bringing that tale back to Edinburgh.
His self-deprecating theme was playing well.
Other EU leaders have warmed to this self-righteous theme.
Like every DVF collection, this one was dedicated to a self-reflective theme: Woman as Legend.
A self-contained theme in the woodwinds and brasses, like some ominous march, plays over murmuring triplets in the strings.
Most recently her books have had a self-help theme, including her most recent book Facing Redundancy: Surviving and Thriving.
The self-improvement theme dissipates: there's not much here to inspire his wife or children's confidence.
"The Revolution," which has a self-improvement theme, has retained only about half of the audience of "One Life to Live" since it started in January.
Mr. Vergara carries his self-improvement theme to all his projects, including his film production company, Anhelo Productions, which he founded with the Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón.
I thought for an instant he'd taken to heart the self-sufficiency theme he's been promoting in his current TV series The Good Life.
Many of the moves are based on martial arts including Tae Kwon Do and Aikido, adding a kind of self-defence theme to occasion.
