O'Connor has settled on a theme familiar to readers of Hardy's rural novels.
Mr. Eskew said the Gore campaign drifted through the spring before finally settling on a theme to use against George Bush.
Settling on a "theme" — meaning color, patterns, typeface, vibe, not something literary like "man's inhumanity to man" — has become part of loading up a new device.
The finger-pointing has already begun: she spent too much money on fancy hotel rooms, her husband made too many blunders, she never settled on a theme, and so on ad infinitum.
In late 2008, Mr. Palmisano and his team settled on a theme: the deployment of scientific research and technology to tackle big challenges for business and society in fields like energy, pollution, transportation and health care.
He and Mr. Obama had talked about the post-caucus speech for about 30 minutes, settling on a theme of unity and an opening line: "They said this day would never come".
We strongly agree with the imperative of settling on a theme and offer an alternative frame so there are more alternatives for testing and vetting heading into the 2016 election.
Each campaign operates by its own playbook when settling on a theme song and -- perhaps more importantly -- deciding whether and how to acquire the legal rights to play it in public.
That didn't seem like the basis of a great film, so instead he settled on a theme – the male ego – and wrote a film in which "everyone thought they were smarter than everyone else".
Moreno's lyrics, delivered slowly in his caramel tenor, do not settle on a single theme.
There's no pattern to any of it – what they undoubtedly cherish as future-forward musical alchemy filters back as a busy old mess, like they can't settle on a single theme for a song, so they pack them in like extras in a hatchback advert.
