Sentence examples for taken the theme from inspiring English sources
The author of two previous novels, Cohen has taken the theme for his new one from that old chestnut of the psychedelic era, "Better living through chemistry".+But in the heyday of recreational drugs the urge was enlightenment, while these days our pharmaceutical goal is more modest.
The 800 or so guests, quite of a few of whom had taken the theme of the spring exhibition, "Punk: Chaos to Couture," to heart on Monday night, tromped in ball gowns and combat boots and heavy black eyeliner and safety-pin dresses and spiked hair and shredded fishnets into the Temple of Dendur for the evening's entertainment, which included back-to-back mini-concerts by Debbie Harry and Kanye West.
Shuffling with effortless grace between the past and present lives of his title heroine (played at different stages by Adriana Ugarte and Emma Suarez), Almodóvar seems to have taken the theme of loss unusually to heart.
The first, on October 25th, took the theme of liberty.
Sans Soleil takes the theme even further with visual and verbal cross-associations of remarkable plaintive resonance.
Carlos Kalmar, the orchestra's music director, took the theme of "Music for a Time of War," presenting works of Ives, John Adams, Britten, and Vaughan Williams.
"But if you're going to write about somebody, are you going to take his life or just take the theme?" Not that he is complaining that vociferously.
It takes the theme literally enough to push off the stage and into the street and a truck that is parked there.
But in this instance, I decided to take the theme of the exhibition head on, and attempt to make a polemical piece.
Some participants took the theme particularly seriously, wearing vintage Polo sweaters, retro Air Jordan sneakers and chunky gold door knocker earrings.
Contributions have so far included a letter from the playwright Caryl Churchill, who also takes the theme of conscientious objection, and one from the former poet laureate, Sir Andrew Motion, wondering whether the soldier has just written rather than received his letter.
