Sentence examples for theme of passing from inspiring English sources

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In 1912 future NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson, poet, diplomat, and journalist, published anonymously The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, a psychological novel that employed the theme of passing for white to explore the double consciousness of its protagonist with a dispassionate objectivity unattempted in African American fiction up to that time.

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The film had this theme of trains passing through, which was great, but it made the scenes in Papa's flat really tricky.

With lavish, Venice Carnival-themed rooms, welcoming staff and fantastic views of passing gondoliers, Locanda Orseolo, near St Mark's Square, is a great place to stay (from £105).

The painting of woolly mammoths suffering through the Ice Age connects the film's themes of eras passing and ways of life becoming extinct.

Max touches here on a recurring theme that comes up throughout my discussions with other trans people: the concept of passing as one gender or the other.

The thematic elements of passing — fragmentation, alienation, liminality, self-fashioning — echo the great themes of modernism.

The theme of "Africa" concerns the finding of a spiritual home amid geographical displacement, and of passing that sense of belonging on to one's children.

Boy, Snow, Bird is an impressive performance marred only by the well-meaning but awkward explanation given at the end of the book for Frank's abusiveness, which attempts to mirror the theme of racial passing with a parallel subplot about gender.

The theme was "passing the torch of democracy" to a new generation.

This may yet prove a winning factor for the Tories, moving more to the single "change" theme with each passing moment of the campaign, but the choppy polling also suggests a "they're all the same" feeling.

THE Conservative government led by Stephen Harper has made being tough on crime one of its signature themes, passing a series of bills during its almost eight years in power to make criminal justice more punitive.

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