10 sentences with 'themes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word themes and other words derived from it.
• « So one of the central themes of Western Civilisation is that from its inception, that the east is to the east of Greece and the west is to the west of Greece, and that the world is divided between Greeks and barbarians, there was an idea of who is central and superior, and who is on the margins and inferior (or at least not part of the best version of culture). »
• « However, despite the bewildering diversity of beliefs among the early Christians, there were common themes, not least the emphasis that Jesus himself had placed on the spiritual needs of ordinary people, even the socially marginalised. »
• « Of the various themes of Renaissance thought, perhaps the most important was humanism, an ancient intellectual paradigm that emphasised both beauty and the centrality of humanity in the universe. »
• « Dante's work, which soon became justly famous in Italy and then elsewhere in Europe, presaged some of the essential themes of Renaissance thought. »
• « And, just as Petrarch "invented" the main themes of Renaissance thought by imitating and defending classical humanist thought, a Florentine artist, architect and engineer named Filippo Brunelleschi "invented" Renaissance art by imitating the classical world. »
• « Historians now tend to reject the idea that the Enlightenment was a single, self-conscious movement of thinkers, but they still (usually) accept that there were innovative new themes of thought to be found in much of the philosophical, literary and technical writing of the period. »
• « Along with these philosophical themes, central to the Enlightenment was the emergence of new forms of media and new ways in which people exchanged information, along with new 'sensibilities' regarding what was appropriate and desirable in social conduct and politics. »
• « The Enlightenment also introduced themes of thought that undermined traditional religious beliefs, at least in the long run. »