A major, underlying theme is an impending invasion of Europe by Muslim forces from further east and south headed by the expected Antichrist, directly reflecting the then-current Ottoman invasions and the earlier Saracen equivalents, as well as the prior expectations of the Mirabilis Liber.

While not bestowing upon the reader any singular theme or underlying purpose, it shows that despite the obviously massive advances in technology, society and scope of human civilisation, we are still fundamentally the same.

* A canto was quoted and used as an underlying theme of the 1945 screen adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray: " I sent my soul through the invisible, some letters of that after-life to spell, and by and by my soul did return, and answered, ' I myself am Heaven and Hell.

The film's underlying theme arises from their differing ideas about relationships between men and women which emerge during this journey.

* An underlying motif or theme that affects the hero's name, costume, personal effects, and other aspects of his or her character ( e. g., Batman wears a bat-themed costume, uses bat-themed gadgetry and equipment and operates at night ; Spider-Man can shoot webs from his hands, has a spider web pattern on his costume, and other spider-like abilities ).

The underlying theme of endosymbiotic theory, as formulated in 1966, was interdependence and cooperative existence of multiple prokaryotic organisms ; one organism engulfed another, yet both survived and eventually evolved over millions of years into eukaryotic cells.

Like Padams the underlying theme of Javalis is Sringara Rasa depicting the Nayaka-Nayaki bhava.

Its underlying theme is quasi-religious: who did this?

However, Schoenberg and other theorists who used his ideas as a point of departure see the theme and variations as having an underlying role in the construction of formal music, calling the process continuing variation, and argue from this idea that the sonata-allegro form is a means of structuring the continuing variation process.

" Biel notes that Lord's underlying theme is a rather nostalgic reflection of the " nobler instincts " exhibited in the disaster and their subsequent eclipse.

Both these contribute to an underlying theme of questioning human free will, and exploring the implications of a deterministic philosophy towards human behavior.

Banter is a central and underlying theme in the novel.

This is the underlying theme in the majority of transcendentalist essays and papers — all of which are centered on subjects which assert a love for individual expression.

The underlying theme of transcendence is shown within group interaction and dynamics.

The passage of time and the mysteries of personal growth are a constant underlying theme in this film.

The monument also provokes controversy, because some allege that underlying it is the theme of racial superiority legitimized by the idea of Manifest Destiny.

The key theme of Ficino ’ s philosophy held that there is an underlying unity to the world, the soul or love, which has a counterpart in the realm of ideas.

There followed a further collaboration with Mahfouz on The Choice ( 1970 ), ostensibly a murder investigation story involving twin brothers, but with the underlying theme of intellectual schizophrenia.

This preoccupation is also visible in Homage to Catalonia, and continued as an underlying theme of Orwell's work for the years after World War II.

The film has an underlying theme of unexplained events, taken from the 1920s and 1930s works of Charles Fort.

Theme camps -- Groups of participants who build a structure or area for public entertainment with an underlying theme.

The tumult that would have been caused if this and other levees had broken was the song's underlying theme.

The consistent underlying theme was to marry the themes of celebrity and media with the subject of politics in such a way that the general public would find political news and discourse about politics more interesting to read.

" Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times argued that the film is " an affectionate homage to a popular genre that raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme, and a sophisticated style and point of view.

* create option ability where the value of the derivative is linked to a specific condition or event ( e. g. the underlying reaching a specific price level ).

Event-driven strategies concern situations in which the underlying investment opportunity and risk are associated with an event.

In designing SCADA systems, care must be taken when a cascade of alarm events occurs in a short time, otherwise the underlying cause ( which might not be the earliest event detected ) may get lost in the noise.

The underlying cause of Peyronie's Disease is not well understood, but is thought to be caused by trauma or injury to the penis usually through sexual activity although many patients often are unaware of any traumatic event or injury.

According to the Financial Accounting Standards Board's FASB Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133 ( FAS 133 )-Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, an underlying is a specified interest rate, security price, commodity price, foreign exchange rate, index of prices or rates, or other variable ( including the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a specified event such as a scheduled payment under a contract ).

The Weltanschauung of the temporal contiguity of act and event leads to underlying diversifications like determinism vs. free will.

The main difference between CDO's and derivatives is that a derivative is essentially a bilateral agreement in which the payout occurs during a specific event which is tied to the underlying asset.

The buyer makes periodic payments to the seller, and in return receives a payoff if an underlying financial instrument defaults or experiences a similar credit event.

* The buyer of a CDS does not need to own the underlying security or other form of credit exposure ; in fact the buyer does not even have to suffer a loss from the default event.

Given the small number of NAION events with PDE5 use ( less than 1 in 1 million ), the large number of users of PDE5 inhibitors ( millions ) and the fact that this event occurs in a similar population to those who do not take these medicines, the FDA concluded that they were not able to draw a cause and effect relationship, given these patients underlying vascular risk factors or anatomical defects.

Decontextualization is a type of omission in which the omitted information is essential to understanding a decision, action, or event, its underlying motivations or key events leading up to it.

An underlying assumption of radical elections is that, because each person was born under different astrological conditions, the most auspicious time to hold an event will be different for each.

Using its own widget, drawing and event systems ( though FLTK2 has gained experimental support for optionally using the cairo graphics library ) abstracted from the underlying system-dependent code, it allows for writing programs which look the same on all supported operating systems.

Dumezil in his Archaic Roman Religion had been unable to interpret the myth underlying this legendary event, later though he accepted the interpretation given by P. Drossart and published it in his Fêtes romaines d ' été et d ' automne, suivi par dix questions romaines in 1975 as Question IX.

At political or industrial conventions and expositions and at academic conferences, the keynote address or keynote speech is delivered to set the underlying tone and summarize the core message or most important revelation of the event.

Merck has stated the " underlying cause " of osteonecrosis of the jaw is " uncertain ", though it might be triggered by a traumatic event like tooth extraction or oral surgery.

Some states ’ lis pendens statutes require the filer of the notice, in the event of a challenge to the notice, to establish that it has probable cause or a good likelihood of success on the merits of its case in the underlying lawsuit ; other statutes do not have such a requirement.

( Many use the term sample space simply for the underlying set of a probability space, particularly in the case where every subset is an event.

This allows the lender to engage in a more rapid seizure of underlying collateral in the event of default and foreclosure.

However, pub / sub are tightly coupled, via event subscriptions and patterns, to the semantics of the underlying event schema and values.

Domes are generally formed from one main deformation event, or via diapirism from underlying magmatic intrusions or movement of upwardly mobile, mechanically ductile material such as rock salt ( salt dome ) and shale ( shale diapir ).

For this surface, we can see that the underlying symbol has both volatility skew ( a tilt along the delta axis ), as well as a volatility term structure indicating an anticipated event in the near future.

On November 18, 2008, it was announced that TradeSports would cease operations and expire all open contracts at prices not equal to 0 or 100, even though the site stated that all funds were segregated and that contracts would all be expired at 0 or 100 depending on the outcome of the underlying event, with Tradesports merely acting as an escrow agent.