"Food and health is one of the great topics of our age," he said.
In effect, it allowed him to extend the arguments of the novels by other means -- to editorialize and express opinions on all the great topics of the day.
What happens to the licence fee, and the role and remit of the BBC when its charter is renewed, will be one of the great topics of discussion in the months (and years) ahead.
The synthesis of huge chiral molecular architectures with functions of self-replication and self-improvement is one of the great topics of research in synthetic, systems and prebiotic chemistry.
Ms. Mellsop noted that the service will help UNICEF and its partners determine the greatest topics of interest for Nepali young people, as well as potential ways for them to participate in public life.
Although talking about the weather is a cliche, if there's something unusual about the weather, you've got a great topic of conversation.
The detailed study of latent packed bed thermal energy storage (TES) system has been a great topic of interest in the literature.
Indeed, Luan Da's dramatic growth in reputation and stature became a great topic of discussion in the Han capital of Chang'an, and mystics were eager to imitate his success.
"This is a great topic of discussion at your next meeting with the Afghan Army," he said.
In this photo, you can see some of the great topics I enjoyed: ancient stones, Bill Bryson, British banter, Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Nation, Doc Martin's Cornwall, the ins and outs of high tea, and so on.
