Sentence examples for thorny theme from inspiring English sources

It's in moments like this, and in the tenuous pleasures of Steil's new existence, that Latour suggests a potent and thorny theme: freedom as an anticlimax.

Adapted from the autobiography of Chris Kyle, a navy Seal (nicknamed "the Legend" – really) who racked up more than 160 confirmed kills as a marksman in Iraq, American Sniper finds Eastwood returning once again to Unforgiven's thorny themes of guns and retribution in tensely cinematic fashion.

It's a thorny topic.

What a perfect capture for fiction -- taking the elemental issues with which one struggles, giving those problems to one's characters, and kneading those thorny emotional themes that haunt into the thoughts, minds, and actions of those characters until, hopefully, you can beat that sucker into submission.

Addicts of flaming folies à deux will be pleased to learn that this season is providing a promisingly thorny set of variations on the themes of really tough love and those who endure it.

And in this one, as in "Days of Glory," the high-minded talk and theme-announcing scenes illuminate a thorny and crucial paradox, namely that the countries fighting against totalitarian race-hatred had some serious race problems of their own.

The thorny issues of memory and representation are a common theme, with the conclusion often being that memory — perhaps especially in Lebanon, where there were so many competing ideologies and narratives — is an untrustworthy, manipulative beast, and that accurate representation is an elusive aspiration.

"Ives" responds to American themes, both musical and social, with typically thorny darkness in songs sung by Philip Cutlip to piano accompaniment by Cameron Grant.

Mr. Chong was inspired by the theme from "The Art of Fugue" while writing his thorny, dissonant "Thousand Ripples of a Lonely Bell" for solo viola.

A set of early vignettes, "Trois Pieces" (1961), reveals the influence of several post-war European avant-garde styles and Mr. Andriessen's disinclination to choose just one: the thorny angularity of the opening "Promenade" gives way to staccato pointillism and darting themes in "Fracas".

Ensemble SurPlus devoted most of its Tuesday program to thornier works, including Lukas Foss's Music for Six (1978), with its undulating, birdcall-like theme and hazy textures, and Brian Ferneyhough's "Coloratura" (1966), a characterful, pointillistic score with an appealing, virtuosic oboe line.