The Maysleses' enduring theme of the absent boundary between theatre and life, between show and reality, is stood on its head: art as great as that of the Stones is destined to have a mighty real-world effect.
The opening line of his mystical khamriyyah mentions not only wine (now acting as a symbol for the achievement of a transcendent state) but also the ancient theme of the absent beloved.
The theme of Will Eaves's The Absent Therapist, also short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize, drew comparisons to Outline, as both were seen as commenting on authorial identity or its absence.
The theme of personal death is absent in Nishida's early work on pure experience and self-awareness, and mentioned only abstractly in essays on the historical world and the self, for example: "In absolute dialectics, mediation as absolute negation is mediation as absolute death, living by dying absolutely" (NKZ VII, 314).
The role of age, gender and the physical properties of agents were new factors identified by the synthesis affecting the a priori theme of use, which were absent from the original conceptual model.
Secondly, this course will demonstrate photography's predominant theme of the presence of the absent (or the absent made present) and how it is a history of its own making.
Innocence does not exist in her world of pubescent and adolescent desire and cruelty, although the corrupting influence of evil grown-ups who step in when parents are absent is clearly a theme of the book.
While the "I Dream of Jeannie" theme was thankfully absent from the concert, there were songs that struck a similar nerve, like "Brazil".
Environmental responsibility is a theme largely absent from Apple's hype events, too.
None of these themes was absent from the Bible, which was held to be divinely revealed, but each had become the object of constant theological readjustment that also involved the adoption of concepts from outside and reactions against them.
