Sentence examples for theme instead of from inspiring English sources

You had to build on that theme instead of taking it in a new direction".

You realize how effective it can be to let documentary pieces cluster around a theme, instead of mixing hard news with lighter fare in the standard newsmagazine way.

Hewing to an Asian theme, instead of sautéing leeks or onions to add sweetness to the pot, I chose scallions, saving the green tops for a sharp, fresh garnish.

How much richer the film might have been had it made Ms. Patel's imminent retirement and farewell an organizing theme instead of throwing it in at the last minute.

MONDAY'S PUZZLE — This is Michael Farabaugh's third time out in The New York Times, and he offers us a perfectly O.K. puzzle that is a twist on the vowel run theme: instead of the letters being vowel runs, Mr. Farabaugh shows us that we can have our cruciverbal cake and eat it too.

The rituals of the meal would direct diners to speak with one another, asking questions of their neighbors like "Whom can you not forgive?" or "What do you fear?" Among de Botton's proposals, I particularly like the idea of a museum organized by theme instead of by historical epoch.

When an innovation tournament is well designed, you get a large pool of initial ideas, but they're clustered around key themes instead of spanning a range of topics.

Mr. Costello built loopholes into the wheel: one for "solo" songs he could choose — like the ragtimey "Slow Drag With Josephine," from the "National Ransom" album of 2010 — and slots that were themes instead of song titles.

Sondheim is also discouraged that recent musicals confuse his and Hammerstein's idea of the "serious" musical with mere solemnity: "They're so eager to make what they write important that they start with themes instead of stories and characters".

I've also found it depressing how often teenagers have said to me that their main GCSE set text was John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, which they found tedious, undeveloped, overly schematic and all too easy to reduce to a set of themes instead of a literary experience.

It's also very much baseball themed – instead of "likes" you can give a "fist bump" to each post.