Sentence examples similar to worldly theme from inspiring English sources

The best of these combine worldly themes with compartmentalized symbolism suggestive of Joseph Cornell boxes or de Chirico paintings.

Sadly, the first four episodes are — despite a very HBO combination of worldly themes and super-horny sex scenes — more of an irritant than an intoxicant.

The genres main labels – Narada, Windham Music, and Higher Octave – were beginning to explore worldly themes versus the warm, earthly, acoustic themes that prior artists had established.

Mendelssohn's "Variations S euses" was at the top of the program; at least as serious in their different ways were Webern's Variations (Op. 27) and Beethoven's C minor Sonata (Op. 111), with its long and other-worldly theme-and-variations movement.

Do you find that the topics on the new album Holy War have a worldly universal theme to them?

Fauré's last work, the String Quartet, has been described by critics in Gramophone magazine as an intimate meditation on the last things, and "an extraordinary work by any standards, ethereal and other-worldly with themes that seem constantly to be drawn skywards".

Four well-known Sanskrit collections, of the 7th century, are the famous "century" of Amaru, king of Kashmir, and the three "centuries" by the poet Bhartṛhari; one of the latter's collections is devoted to love, another to worldly wisdom a very popular theme in epigrammatic verse and the third to dispassion.

This is a re-enactment of the subduing of the worldly gods, a common theme in Tibetan Buddhism, recalling the initial control exerted over the landscape by the incoming religion (Ramble 1999).