With a great economy of expression, O'Faolain brought a refreshing insight to the familiar themes of love, rejection, loss, the detrimental effects of alcohol, and the reality of being an unpartnered, middle aged woman.
Once blacks used the language of empowerment and self-determination, whites were free to do so as well: those Boston Irish-American parents resisting busing appealed to the same themes of community autonomy and rejection of outsiders that black activists did in demanding control of their schools.
Like Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and other hallmark songwriters of his generation, Prine's song catalog is vast, but he has found a way to narrow it down to a set that keeps focus on the central themes of his work: the rejection of artifice, the mystery of ordinariness, the humor in the mundane.
These reflections on the incidents fell into two sub themes: those of acceptance and those of rejection.
In Italy, as also in Germany, concern with reform of church institutions was a more prominent theme than rejection of doctrine.
The brooding, epic centrepiece of 2007's Ringleader of the Tormentors rolls all Morrissey's classic themes of love, loneliness, death and rejection into one storm-soaked ball of unlikely redemption.
I started thinking of how I could break up the components so that people who were not that wealthy could participate in it". These common themes - rejection of commercialism, a return to unironic figurative painting, a focus on mass, collaborative subversion of mainstream imagery and above all art with a social purpose - would be evidence of the beginnings of a new style under any circumstance.
Her lyrics were also minimalist, but they were working with emotional themes, from the propulsion of lust to the fear of rejection.
While he employs extensive period detail on a range of relevant themes, Sansom unfortunately uses his hunchback lawyer's fear of rejection to keep us from the finer details of Tudor sex lives.
The other three types that Niebuhr proposed are variations on the theme of mediation between rejection and uncritical endorsement of the world.
