Sentence examples for statement of theme from inspiring English sources

The studio recording of "Body and Soul," from October 1939, is an event, an actorly tour de force in three minutes, a continuous solo after a loose statement of theme; its equivalent in another form of music might be Jimi Hendrix's "Star-Spangled Banner".

The book's famous statement of theme, "Stay gold," is of course a reference to Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay," and then there's the not-quite-believable assertion that the novel was written as a "theme" for Ponyboy's English class: "Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge".

The continuing analysis of humpback whale songs reveals a taste for rhyme and a reliance on the ABA form -- "a statement of theme, a section in which it is elaborated, and then a return to a slightly modified version of the original theme".

But among Mr. Foote's best-known works — which it is, thanks in large part to the 1953 television and Broadway productions starring Lillian Gish, and the 1985 film for which Geraldine Page won an Oscar — "Bountiful" is the baldest in its sentimentality and its statement of themes.

Readers may expect certain things from a Chuck Palahniuk novel: a narrator with a messiah complex, taxonomies of eccentric information, pithy single-sentence paragraphs and a few overexplicit statements of theme.

Unlike a conventional theme and variation movement, the minor mode variation is placed immediately after the statement of the theme; normally, the minor mode theme would be held back for later in the movement.

Then Watkins weaves an insight about the inherent falsity of the college town the feeling one gets of its having been created for students and their parents, as a kind of "country-mouse theme park"—into a sly statement of her theme: "I lived in a landscape of pandering".

The colors he drew from the strings when statements of themes turn diffuse and hazy were wondrously eerie.

The first statement of the theme, twitchy and audacious, was followed by a pregnant pause.

Mr. Barenboim affirmed the point by stretching out the gorgeous concluding violin statement of the theme the singers just sang.

Her intrepid march through the fugue, with the final statement of the theme in thick bass octaves, is positively Horowitzian.