8 sentences with 'theme'
Example sentences and phrases with the word theme and other words derived from it.
• « Issue after issue, the Independent hammered the same theme: the corrupting influence of Jews on American politics, public life, finance, existential habits, and morals, in general. »
• « The central theme among the great epic stories of Egyptian religion was that there was some order and harmony in the universe that the gods had created, but which was threatened by the forces of destruction and chaos. »
• « Humanism was a general theme and a phenomenon common to all the major achievements of Greek culture in literature, religion, drama, history and art. »
• « Likewise, a major theme of humanism was pragmatic indifference to gods and fate - one Greek philosopher, Xenophanes, dismissed the very idea of human-like gods intervening in everyday life. »
• « There was also a powerful theme of self-sacrifice associated with Romanitas - the ideal Roman would sacrifice himself for the greater good of Rome without hesitation. In a sense, Romanitas was the Romans' twist on the ancient Greek combination of arete and civic virtue. »
• « This theme would remain in the male-dominated field of education in Europe for centuries to come, although the number of independent and intellectually courageous women writers throughout the early modern period clearly demonstrates that the education of girls did not always succeed in creating compliant and respectful women. »
• « Perhaps the main theme of Enlightenment thought that ran counter to almost all forms of religious practice at the time was the rejection of 'superstitions', things that simply could not happen according to science (such as a virgin giving birth to a child, or wine turning to blood during communion). »