Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Let me quote him even more fully, for his analysis is important to my theme.

Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.

but his principal theme is that the intrigues of the Tories, `` our Popish or Jacobite Party '', pose an immediate threat to Church and State.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

The theme of The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is most closely related to its immediate predecessor in Malraux's array of novels: Man's Hope ( 1937 ).

It is this larger theme of the `` quality of man '', a quality that transcends the ideological and flows into `` the human '', which now forms the pulsating heart of Malraux's artistic universe.

It is extremely important for each American to realize that the theme `` The United Nations Is Your Business '' applies to him personally.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

Like about half of the 1860 - 70 poems, it is a sonnet on a conventional theme -- the unhappiness of love.

Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.

This, of course, is the theme of much art -- perhaps most poetry.

It is the theme of Horace, who certainly otherwise bears little resemblance to Parker or Thomas.

The difference is that Horace accepted his theme with a kind of silken assurance.

The immediate theme, if it exists, is incidental, and his main theme -- the terror of birth -- is simply reiterated.

Money, so important a theme elsewhere in Dickens, is here central, and hands are often associated in some way with the false values -- acquisitiveness, snobbery, self-interest, hypocrisy, toadyism, irresponsibility, injustice -- that attach to a society based upon the pursuit of wealth.

Stagecoach Days is the theme for the weekend on the Old Chisholm Trail.

This is one of the main reasons for National Library Week, April 16-22, and for its theme: `` For a richer, fuller life, read ''!!

But this is a theme which does not take so much time to state as Mr. Wesker dedicates to it.

There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Astérix, is themed around the series.

In 1968, a theme park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas, based on Capp's work and with his support.

The characters and theme of the game are based on the 1986 platform arcade game Bubble Bobble.

Other scholars have presented evidence pointing to a post-monarchic date ( as late as 200 BC ) based on language and theme, although the book might still have been based on an earlier composition.

Singer-songwriter Kim Carnes and her husband David Ellingson wrote and produced Kenny Rogers's 1980 album " Gideon ", which was based on the theme of a Texas cowboy.

The Pauline theme of unity based on a sacrificial Christology may also be noted in the epistle to the Philippians.

The club's theme song is called " See the Bombers Fly Up " and is based on the tune of Johnnie Hamp's 1929 song " Keep Your Sunny Side Up " at an increased tempo.

In the year 2009, the was Sam Fransikachea Visvaxiponnachea Dekhin, Jezu-Noketra Bhaxen Porzollum-ia, which translates from Konkani into English as ' Inspired by the faithfulness of Saint Francis, let us shine like Jesus, the Star ', probably based on the year's pastoral theme of the Archdiocese of Goa e Damão Noketram Bhaxen, Sonvsarant Porzollum-ia which translates into English as ' Shine like Stars, in the World '.

The theme of this year's feast was Mon ' xa Xrixtticho Korar Jieum-ia, Sam Fransisk Xavierak Man Dium-Ya, based on the Archdiocese of Goa and Damão's archbishops pastoral letter, Mon ' xa Xrixtticho Korar, Deva Mogacho Rupkar which in English roughly means " Covenant between Man and Nature Divine Love's Manifestation ".

The theme was based on revolt against materialism, rationalism, positivism, bourgeois society and liberal democracy.

This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil's Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man's progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft.

Except for some TV work in the late seventies, Caprino made no more puppet films, focusing instead on creating attractions for the Hunderfossen theme park outside Lillehammer based on his folk tale movies, and making tourist films using a custom built multi camera setup of his own design that shoots 280 degrees panorama movies.

He later wrote what is probably his best known instrumental work, Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans, a set of seven pavanes for five viols and lute, each based on the theme derived from the lute song " Flow my tears ".

The main theme of the poem is the idea that was novel in the times of early nationalisms based on centralized nation-statesthat the lack of political sovereignty does not preclude the existence of a nation.

The latter was based on a theme suggested by Poliziano and was commissioned by Lorenzo de Medici.

The film is heavily based around the main character ( Paul ) and the theme surrounding him is loosely based around the myth of Narcissus, as all who look at Paul are transfixed by his beauty-just as all those who gazed upon Narcissus were transifixed with his beauty.

Its theme is based on an outtake from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the astronaut ( seen playing chess in the final version ) is playing a two-player pentomino game against a computer.

Works in which science and technology are a dominant theme, but based on current reality, may be considered mainstream fiction.

As evidence of this, Jaffé has pointed out that the central movement of Sonata No. 7 opens with a theme based on a Robert Schumann lied, ' Wehmut ' (' Sadness ', which appears in Schumann's Liederkreis, Op.

Each year there is a central theme, and prizes are awarded based on creativity.

* Cowpoker, a card game partly based on poker mechanics with a central theme of old west cattle ranchers.

Though not an organized movement, Esslin grouped these playwrights together based on some similarities of theme and technique ; Esslin argues that these similarities may be traced to an influence from the Surrealists.