A recurring theme in this work is the radical amazement that people feel when experiencing the presence of the Divine.

In the Middle Ages, regicide was rare in Western Europe, but it was a recurring theme in the Eastern Roman Empire.

In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

Lois ' affection for Superman and her rejection of Clark's clumsy advances have been a recurring theme in Superman comics, television, and movies.

A recurring theme on the show WKRP in Cincinnati was a hostile attitude towards disco music.

Another significance of the structural problematic for Derrida is that while a critique of structuralism is a recurring theme of his philosophy this does not mean that philosophy can claim to be able to discard all structural aspects.

Tolstoy's War and Peace features criticism of Great Man Theories as a recurring theme

One recurring theme is loyalty.

Cloning is a recurring theme in a wide variety of contemporary science fiction, ranging from action films such as the 2000 film The 6th Day to comedies such as Woody Allen's 1973 film Sleeper.

The main recurring theme in his works is a comparison of the readers ' gloomy, hopeless situations to what may happen in a space environment if we carry totalitarian ideas and habits into space worlds: Red Space Republics or Space Labour Camps, or both.

However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.

The impact of inventions and technology on society is a recurring, if not central theme in Niven's work: for example, addiction to electric brain stimulation resulting in " wireheads ", or the secondary and tertiary effects of an invention such as teleportation on social behavior, problems, and mores.

During this time, Miyazaki drew airplanes and developed a lifelong fascination with aviation, a penchant that later manifested as a recurring theme in his films.

However, while globalization appears frequently as a recurring theme, Klein rarely addresses the topic of globalization itself, and usually indirectly.

Hospitality ( xenia ) is also a recurring theme as fundamental as the heroic code in the Odyssey.

There is also the recurring theme of duality, Adamists vs Edenists, Tyrathca vs Mosdva, Residents vs Ivets, Edenists vs Serpents, ESA vs ISA, even the Tyrathca have an internal divide.

The various realms consist of a number of gothic, medieval, as well as " fire and brimstone "- style caves and dungeons with a recurring theme of hellish and satanic imagery reminiscent of Doom ( such as pentagrams and images of demons on the walls ).

A recurring theme was the ethical aspects of an artificial, yet apparently sentient, being.

One recurring theme in the Doctor's life was his lack of a name.

A recurring theme in his writings is the history and development of evolutionary, and pre-evolutionary, thought.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

This idea of a superficial contrast between characters ' individual linguistic style, tone and sphere of interest, leading to an understanding of the deeper unity between the ancient and modern, is a recurring theme in The Hobbit.

His long-time co-writer Charles McKeown comments about Gilliam's recurring interests, " the theme of imagination, and the importance of imagination, to how you live and how you think and so on [...] that's very much a Terry theme.

Elected archon in 493 BC, he took steps to increase the naval power of Athens, which would be a recurring theme in his political career.

In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.

Tinkle, an Indian comic book for children, has Nasruddin Hodja as a recurring character.

Influence is a recurring theme throughout the book.

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software is a software engineering book describing recurring solutions to common problems in software design.

This is German for " Not being at home ", a recurring phrase in the book House of Leaves.

Critics argue that there are recurring themes of music that begin at the beginning of the chapter and continue throughout the rest of the chapter, and also the book.

Other works taking their title from the book include: the Futurama episode " Future Stock "; a segment on The Daily Show starring Samantha Bee ; Kevin Goldstein's recurring column on the Baseball Prospectus website ; a Magic: The Gathering pre-constructed deck ; and the National Wrestling Alliance's 1989 Starrcade event.

Nietzsche injects myriad ideas into the book, but there are a few recurring themes.

A recurring motif in the book is Toranaga engaging in falconry.

The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel ( she previously had a role in the Parker Pyne short story The Case of the Discontented Soldier ).

Paul Alpers, In his 1997 book, What is Pastoral ?, describes the recurring plot of pastoral literature as the lives of shepherds.

In October 2005, Slave Labor Graphics began publishing a bimonthly Haunted Mansion comic book anthology, with the main recurring story ( Mystery of the Manse ) centered around " Master Gracey " and inspired by the sea captain concepts proposed for the attraction by Ken Anderson in the 1950s.

The book ( most notably Horton the Elephant's recurring phrase " a person's a person, no matter how small ") has found its way to the center of the recurring debate, in the United States, over abortion.

* The Daltons are regularly recurring adversaries in the Lucky Luke comic book series.

Within the book " there are major parallel stories, alternating dream and reality sequences, tied together by the recurring names of the characters in each ; this provides intertexts within each novel which comment on the other stories.

Between appearances in these other titles, Franklin has remained a recurring cast member of the Fantastic Four comic book.

Arguments against Roman Catholicism were a recurring theme in Salmon's theology and culminated in his widely-read 1888 book Infallibility of the Church in which he argued that certain beliefs of the Roman church were absurd, especially the beliefs in the infallibility of the church and the infallibility of the pope.

While his trademark bald head, stocky build, and gruff Yorkshire accent garnered him many roles as tough guys and criminals, he also played Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and had a recurring role in the classic sitcom Porridge as dim witted prison inmate Cyril Heslop who utters the memorable line " I read a book once, green it was ".

There is, in fact, a bit of a recurring theme throughout the book in that Jake is about the only character who does not appear in any way to see the case through a racial lens.

The Evolution of Melanism: a study of recurring necessity ; with special reference to industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera is a 1973 science book by the lepidopterist Bernard Kettlewell.

Here Gretchen starts to show her feelings for Clive, a recurring character throughout the book, who brings news from the outside world as well as new music from his homeland in England.

Vance was the first African American woman to become a SNL repertory player ( not to be confused with Yvonne Hudson from season six, who first appeared as a recurring extra for season four and season five and was hired as a feature player during Jean Doumanian's notoriously shaky sixth season ), the only SNL cast member to have a learning disability ( Vance was dyslexic and, according to Al Franken in the book, Live from New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, Vance had trouble memorizing lines and reading cue cards, though it wasn't made apparent in most cases and, in one case, was covered up by ad-libbing ), was the first lesbian cast member hired ( though her sexual orientation wasn't known until her death ), and the only black lesbian cast member as of 2012.

The tiny 4 " x 4 " hardcover book Mighty Mite The Ear Mite ( 2003, Fantagraphics Books ) is based on recurring characters in Maakies.