Sentence examples for standard theme from inspiring English sources

In the days of silent pictures, the distinction between rural virtue and big-city vice was a standard theme.

The fact that so many Lebanese emigrated led to the creation of a standard theme in Lebanese fiction: emigrants returning to their villages.

But Hal Steinbrenner touched on a standard theme found in almost every statement after a Yankee campaign that doesn't end with a parade.

Here, in 22 rumbustious late drawings, Goya reinflates a standard theme in European art, dating back to the beginning of the witch-hunts – the demonic energy, and lawless creativity, of old crones.

Protest song became commercial, as well as being an expression of idealism: the song became a standard theme for the burgeoning civil rights movement, a song that previously non-political citizens could find themselves humming: just what Meeropol hoped would happen.

Mr. Maazel is often at his most persuasive in Sibelius, perhaps because the distensions of tempo and phrase that he so enjoys seem integral to the composer's aesthetic, which came to rely less on standard theme and development than on a churning formative process.

It is this way of moving that makes Mr. Brown's approach to standard themes different.

The exhibition is laid out according to the standard themes of Orientalist art: landscape, portraiture, religion and the harem.

These radio-style stations are based on genres and themes, like its rivals: Happy Hour, Sad Songs and Cosy Fireplace among more standard themes.

His speech, first touching on his standard themes of income inequality, college affordability and campaign finance reform, earned him smatterings of applause.

The latter task is onerous, like explaining jokes; but it arrives at hints of how slyly Veronese played on standard themes.