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.

The second season saw an attempt to seek younger viewers and premiered a new, disco arrangement of the gentle theme tune.

Her Ukiah Oregon series features a partly alien character of gentle nature but with powerful abilities and with dangerous relatives who are variations on the theme of werewolf.

In a complete change of mood, Part II begins with a simple four-note phrase for the violas which introduces a gentle, rocking theme for the strings.

The song is both a challenge of narrowminded religion and moralism, and a gentle celebration of love, in some ways not unlike the theme of Luke 7: 36-50.

Gridneff hoped that the theme would act as a gentle method of enticing casual viewers into the series.

Like waves, the two lead into one another until finally the second theme gives way to a gentle coda.

The theme song was a gentle tune with a traditional Miller / Boyett " inspirational " sound, and was performed by Mark Lennon ( who also sang the theme to Going Places ).

Jack Murphy Stadium played " Cub-Busters ", a parody of the theme song from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in " Flaming Moe's ", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous Cheers theme, and tries to pick up both Joey Kramer ( Aerosmith's drummer ) and Homer Simpson, even after learning he is married and Bart's father.

The band Little Roger and the Goosebumps recorded " Gilligan's Island Stairway ," a parody of Led Zeppelin's " Stairway to Heaven ", substituting the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song.

Yankovic also used the lyrics from the closing theme in " Amish Paradise ", a parody of Coolio's " Gangsta's Paradise ".

This sketch was a parody of The Fugitive, and eventually included a title sequence that parodied the original Quinn Martin TV series theme.

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

By means of three parody variations, 1, 15, and 25, Beethoven established a series of periodic references to the waltz that draw it more closely into the inner workings of the set, and the last of these gives rise to a progression that transcends the theme once and for all.

Machaut's mass differs from these in the following ways: ( 1 ) he does not hold a tonal centre throughout the entire work, as the mass uses two distinct modes ( one for the Kyrie, Gloria and Credo, another for Sanctus, Agnus and Ita missa est ); ( 2 ) there is no extended melodic theme that clearly runs through all the movements, and the mass does not use the parody technique ; ( 3 ) there is considerable evidence that this mass was not composed in one creative motion.

The piece is also known for a scathing parody of the " invasion theme " of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, a work which Bartók disliked for a number of reasons, located within the Intermezzo fourth movement.

He appears disguised at the beginning of each episode with his own theme music to deliver Gadget his mission only to be blown up by the self-destructing message ( a parody of the Mission: Impossible messages ) because of Gadget's obliviousness ; he appears again at the end of most episodes to congratulate Gadget on a job well done, but he never realizes that it is Penny who is truly the one responsible for foiling Doctor Claw's plots.

Among his best known musical performances were " The Welly Boot Song ", a parody of the Scottish folk song " The Wark O ' The Weavers ," which became his theme song for several years ; " In the Brownies ", a parody of the hit Village People song " In the Navy " ( for which Connolly filmed a music video ); " Two Little Boys in Blue ", a tongue-in-cheek indictment of police brutality done to the tune of Rolf Harris ' " Two Little Boys "; and the ballad " I Wish I Was in Glasgow ," which Connolly would later perform in duet with Malcolm McDowell on a guest appearance on the 1990s American sitcom Pearl ( which starred Rhea Perlman ).

Capp had previously spoofed the idea of a theme park based on his characters in Li ' l Abner, in a 1955 Disneyland parody called " Hal Yappland.

In 1977, Little Roger and the Goosebumps recorded a parody of the song in which the words to the theme song of the television show Gilligan's Island were sung in place of the original lyrics.

The scene where the Angels go to investigate the body of Agent Caufield dressed as crime-scene professionals is a homage / parody of the long-running CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, complete with the theme " Who Are You " by The Who.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End features a parody of the " Man With a Harmonica " theme on the soundtrack, as the film's protagonists parlay on a sandbar before the final battle.

Dennis Waterman also sang the theme songs to other programmes he starred in, including On the Up, Stay Lucky, and New Tricks, and this led to a parody in Little Britain where Dennis Waterman is offered acting work ; he always assumes he will also ' write the theme tune, sing the theme tune ...'.

The opening sequence of each episode is lengthy and complicated, a parody of the overuse of computer-generated credit sequences on news programmes, and the theme tune is deliberately overdramatic and self-important.

He also used the beatnik musician theme in a parody of " The Great Pretender ," the hit by The Platters — who, like Ray and Belafonte ( see both above ) and Welk ( see below ), were not pleased.