Sentence examples for the very theme from inspiring English sources

This will be embarrassing, but since the very theme of this essay is public humiliation, I will divulge that my current earnings rival my hourly wage in 1985.

The very theme of travel, of the protagonist being but a traveller on this earth, has been, from Homer's Odyssey onward, one of the most laden with magical, and symbolical, associations in literature.

The very theme of the Republicans' evening, "prosperity with a purpose," contained a tacit acknowledgment that the economy is hardy, a fact that could ultimately be expected to help Mr. Gore.

Better still, the show functions as the perfect stylistic retort to the emotive manipulations of ER, a show popular with other members of my household, the very theme music of which causes me to run screaming from the room.

And in the process, by debunking the idea that "wealth raises all boats," Mr. Piketty has thrown down a challenge to democratic governments to deal with an increasing gap between the rich and the poor — the very theme of inequality that recently moved both Pope Francis and President Obama to warn of its consequences.

The very theme of the movie is violence as redemption; it is only by means of his heroic effort to fight the terrorists that McClane saves his marriage, just as Al, through violence, saves his police-hood in effect, his manhood.

Repeating with conviction the very themes that were used in the indoctrination of Japanese throughout the war, Mr. Mizuno said his country had been fighting strangulation by Western colonial powers like America, Britain and the Netherlands.

It was a nightmare weirdly like something out of one of his own surreal novels, and underscored the very themes he'd been grappling with for years in his fiction: namely, the emotional costs of exile and being cut off from one's past; the consequences of globalization and the cultural clash between East and West; and the increasingly phantasmagorical nature of contemporary history.

The economies of the Asian Tigers were undermined because of a lack of openness and honesty in the civil societies that generated the wealth, the very themes Patten had bashed away at while he was Governor of Britain's last, serious colony.

Foreign corruption versus national heritage: the very themes that have brought today's far right National Front to its triumphant drum roll, echoed across the sea by the isolationist bombast of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

On the subject of artistic theft, I have David Thewlis's new novel on that very theme, The Late Hector Kipling, to read this week.