Sentence examples for used themes from inspiring English sources

William the Conqueror consciously used themes from Revelation, including his crown and Domesday Book, to buttress his conquest of England.

He used themes of antiquity and myths of the past to create a myth of the future.

Writers and song makers have always used themes taken from oral legends and folk songs (see also folk music) and in their turn have affected the traditions themselves.

A review of Jane Alison's novel "The Love-Artist" on May 20 referred incorrectly to the nationality of another novelist, Christoph Ransmayr, who has used themes similar to hers.

Notably, The 39 Steps centres on what became one of his most commonly used themes: an innocent man is mistakenly accused of a crime and must clear his name.

He used themes in this work that relate to those expressed in several of his other works.

"In the old days, organists would use themes from Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Grieg, and, of course, nobody wrote better storm music than Beethoven.

And Mr. Sarkozy is using themes similar to some of those pressed by the far-right candidate of the National Front, Marine Le Pen.

A wealthy Bostonian influenced by artists like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, he posed his subjects in exotic ways and elaborate costumes using themes from literature, drama and religion.

Mr. Lindberg does not use themes; he remains too committed to his modernist background for that, too unwilling to abandon altogether his student enthusiasm for Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio and Milton Babbitt.

The other candidate in the Republican primary runoff, Jim Reese, the courtly and conservative mayor of Odessa, initiated attacks on Mr. Bush using themes that still reverberate today.