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.
In office, he stuck to those four themes, passing laws on each of them and minimising the opportunities for legislators to consider other subjects.Washington, DC, was always going to be harder than Austin (where the Texas legislature meets only once every two years).
A central slow section, built around mournful themes passed among solo instruments and developed contrapuntally, is the work's emotional core, and the ensemble played it with an appealing warmth and the rounded tone you would expect from Juilliard string players but missed earlier in the work.
Jimmy's ambitious menu stays true to Southern and Caribbean themes while passing them through the refining prism of French techniques.
And the film was very smart about showing the sort of pettiness of the Sandra Dee-Lana Turner storyline against these absolutely unresolvable themes about passing as white in society and how much it hurts the black mother of this girl who's very light skinned.
The theme was "passing the torch of democracy" to a new generation.
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.
Since 1999, the better-life foundation has sponsored public service campaigns in media like television, billboards and the Internet; the new effort, carrying the theme "Pass It On," is perhaps the largest, and most earnest, to date.
The painting of woolly mammoths suffering through the Ice Age connects the film's themes of eras passing and ways of life becoming extinct.
Mr. Jansons and the orchestra offered an account of sweeping power and vivaciousness, yet you were constantly drawn to fine details: the way the bassoon lingered, fading to nothingness, after the first movement's initial statement, or a tiny flute line shadowing an ineffably lovely theme that passed from oboe to cellos in the Andantino.
In another work, "Lullaby and Doina" (2001), Mr. Golijov sublimated his Latin roots to his Jewish ones, quoting a Yiddish melody and pairing it with a klezmer-tinged dance, scored to allow the theme to pass among the clarinet, the cello and the flute, all played with a rich, singing tone.
