Brahms wrote settings for piano and voice of 144 German folk songs, and many of his lieder reflect folk themes or depict scenes of rural life.

Popular themes include science fiction, technology, sports, and supernatural settings.

McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings: Fairyland describes a dystopian, war-torn Europe where genetically engineered " dolls " are used as disposable slaves.

Cosmic themes, metaphysics, sense of wonder, exotic settings, technobabble, so-called Big Dumb Objects, psychedelic imagery, and " two fisted action " have been mostly phased out in favor of human content, contemporary themes, and strong focus on character relationships.

The themes, settings and characters developed in these stories culminated in his first novel, Neuromancer, which garnered critical and commercial success, virtually initiating the cyberpunk literary genre.

English words and phrases are prominent in Japanese advertising and popular culture, and many Japanese anime are written around characters, settings, themes, and mythological figures derived from various Western cultural traditions.

: Although these films have contemporary American settings, they utilize Old West themes and motifs ( a rebellious anti-hero, open plains and desert landscapes, and gunfights ).

Meanwhile, films such as The Big Lebowski, which plucked actor Sam Elliott out of the Old West and into a Los Angeles bowling alley, and Midnight Cowboy, about a Southern-boy-turned-gigolo in New York, transplanted Western themes into modern settings for both purposes of parody and homage.

Compositions such as his settings of Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire, various art songs on poems by Verlaine, the opera Pelléas et Mélisande with a libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck, and his unfinished sketches that illustrate two Poe stories, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, all indicate that Debussy was profoundly influenced by symbolist themes and tastes.

Her use of foreign settings and androgynous themes made The Rose of Versailles and Orpheus no Mado " enormous successes ".

Musical settings of pastoral poetry became increasingly common in first polyphonic and then monodic madrigals: these later led to the cantata and the serenata, in which pastoral themes remained on a consistent basis.

With this book, Grey completed the most productive period of his writing career, having laid out most major themes, character types, and settings.

In Premiere, Glenn Kenny gave the film four stars and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 2005 :" Insanely evocative ' 60s-style landscapes and settings share screen space with claustrophobic futuristic CGI metropolises ; everyone smokes and drinks too much ; musical themes repeat as characters get stuck in their own self-defeating modes of eternal return.

Unbound from the same ties that bind authors of traditional fiction to the Earth, they can either completely ignore the Earth or use it as but one of many settings in a more complicated universe, exploring a number of common themes through examining outsiders perceptions of and interactions with Earth.

Research has indicated that certain themes and images such as children, animals, life cycles, relationships, and sports can transcend cultural differences, and may be used in international settings such as traditional and online university classrooms to create common ground among diverse cultures ( Van Hook, 2011 ).

It may also include their configuration files of preferred settings for any software they have used there and might have tailored to their liking: web browser bookmarks, favorite desktop wallpaper and themes, passwords to any external services accessed via a given software, etc.

Day of the Tentacles music was composed by Michael Land, Clint Bajakian and Peter McConnell, who composed the themes for the future, past and present settings of the game respectively.

Although a change for Cao Yu, he was in good company as concentrating on war themes and settings was favored by most of the prominent Chinese writers active during the Second Sino-Japanese war in areas controlled by the government of Chongqing.

It is Hoban's best-known adult novel and a drastic departure from his other work, although he continued to explore some of the same themes in other settings.

Shor develops these themes in looking at the use of Freirean teaching methods in the context of everyday life of classrooms, in particular, institutional settings.

Despite the often exotic settings and science-fiction plot lines, the stories generally remain realistic on the personal level between the characters and friendship, love and spirituality are some of the key themes of the series.

Common themes in Southern Gothic literature include deeply flawed, disturbing or disorienting characters, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or coming from poverty, alienation, racism, crime, and violence.

Subsequent stories alternate between past and future, allowing Tezuka to explore his themes in both historical and science fiction settings.

Through this period, many of his poems revolve around themes of death, endurance, separation and grief.

" Building The World of Tomorrow " ( New York, 1939 – 40 ), " Peace Through Understanding " ( New York, 1964 – 65 ) and " Man and His World " ( Montreal, 1967 ) are examples of these themes.

Through listening and contemplation, an Ainu becomes aware of other Ainur, other musics, and the cultivation and adornment of other themes.

Through analysis of the questionnaires, the IOC gave a weighted-average score to each city based on the scores obtained in each of the questionnaire's eleven themes: political and social support, general infrastructure, sports venues, Olympic Village, environment, accommodation, transport, security, past experience, finance, and legacy.

Through " Rocks and Shoals ", Deep Space Nine also revisits themes of the war conduct as Sisko considers the morality of ambushing soldiers whom superiors have forsaken, only for events to force his hand.

" Through the decades, Nearing wrote thousands of pages of news and commentary on these themes, retiring from this activity only in 1970, at the age of 87.

Through his own concertos and his advocacy of the concertos of Beethoven ( he also played Beethoven's sonatas and string quartets ) and Mendelssohn, he added a more classical dimension to the violin repertoire which had tended towards technically brilliant but often shallow variations and fantasies on popular operatic themes.

Through the choreography of the combat, the naumachia had the ability to represent historical or pseudo-historical themes.

Through the breadth of the work, Otomo explicates themes of social isolation, corruption and power.

Through ironic and self-conscious references, Pizza involves themes of ethnicity and stereotypes, cars, sex, illicit drugs, and violence to produce its sometimes mean-spirited dark humour.

Through the Window in particular showcases many of Keeping's techniques and themes.

Apart from Ethiopian famine, he contributed exclusive photos of the fall of Idi Amin and of Mengistu Haile Mariam, and was author of numerous books, including Journey Through Pakistan, and covered various themes like East African Wildlife and the Uganda Railway.

” Through her art Pozniak often explores what it is to be a woman in today ’ s world with recurring themes of women's rights, social justice and women's history.

At first selling slowly, it rapidly became a lasting success, and its appeal to English musicians had helped to make it widely known before World War I, when its themes struck a powerful chord with English readers.

Second Zechariah, in the opinion of some scholars, appears to make use of the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, the Deuteronomistic History, and the themes from First Zechariah.

Critic Alistair Cooke observed that Capra was " starting to make movies about themes instead of people.

Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Range voting has been used informally by various amateur clubs to make decisions such as meeting dates, event themes or what books to read.

The rich characterization, the careful and caring social eye, the interplay of story line and character development announced that writers could take worn themes such as vampirism and make them fresh again.

Here the authors make an explicit connection between urban legends and popular folklore, such as Grimm's Fairy Tales where similar themes and motifs arise.

Yet it is this very ambitiousness, his striving toward meaning, and attempts to deal with the big themes of human life, that also make his work so clearly appreciated by other critics, his audiences and collectors.

The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").

Some traditional hymns of Pentecost make reference not only to themes relating to the Holy Spirit or the church, but to folk customs connected to the holiday as well, such as the decorating with green branches.

Several themes mingle ; " that the only way to survive such an insane system is to be insane oneself " comments on Yossarian's answer to the Social dilemma ( that he would be a fool to be any other way ) and another theme, " that bad men ( who sell out others ) are more likely to get ahead, rise in rank, and make money ," turns our notions of what is estimable on their heads as well.

The success of the historical novels of Walter Scott had helped to make British themes much en vogue on the continent.

" No one really wanted to make this movie ... a black story, it was based on World War II, and those themes were not popular at the box office ", according to Jewison.

The themes of Industry, Architecture and Social History, make Roaring Spring an excellent example of a locally significant historic district.

The members of the Evaluation Commission then make four-day inspection visits to each of the candidate cities, where they check the proposed venues and are briefed about details of the themes covered in the candidature file.

The tragedy of the Forty-seven Ronin has been one of the most popular themes in Japanese art, and has lately even begun to make its way into Western art.

Its interior, divided in a total of six rooms arranged in galleries whose proportions will allow visitors to make an interactive tour that will switch themes of the art museum with samples of science and technology.

However, in the case of the Censored Eleven, racist themes are so essential and so completely pervade the cartoons that the copyright holders believe that no amount of selective editing could ever make them acceptable for distribution.

The interview section is to assess that the student has really reached a personal and intellectual maturity concerning the various subjects of his or her last school year ; the examining commission is supposed to ask about every subject, but has got to make sure that the candidate is also able to discuss about a variety of themes explaining and justifying his or her opinion.

He was also a good-looking man with regular features, bushy hair, very black whiskers, and wore an excited expression while sounding forth on great authors about whom he invited his students to make a pastiche on general or philosophical themes.

This version offers themes, all new starter solutions, streamlined charting and makes it easier to make iOS databases.

Even when these artists illustrated Confucian moral themes – such as the proper behavior of a wife to her husband or of children to their parents – they tried to make the figures graceful.

It's tempting to search here for themes and a style he would return to in his later masterpieces, but few directors seemed so determined to make every one of his films an individual, free-standing work.

Games make use of strong horror themes, and the player is often challenged to navigate dark maze-like environments, and react to unexpected attacks from enemies.