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.

This is the theme played out in Judges: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies ; the people then repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a judge ; the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression, but after a while they fall into unfaithfulness again and the cycle is repeated.

Biographers and critics often suggest that Poe's frequent theme of the " death of a beautiful woman " stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his wife.

He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles .” A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world, including the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and Klaatu.

The consistent theme of chapters 17 – 26 is the repeated phrase, " Be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

The theme of repeated unit-cellular-structure also holds for most condensed phases with metallic bonding, which means that solid metals are also not made of molecules.

Thetis is not successful in her role protecting and nurturing a hero ( the theme of kourotrophos ), but her role in succouring deities is emphatically repeated by Homer, in three Iliad episodes: as well as her rescue of Zeus ( 1. 396ff ) and Hephaestus ( 18. 369 )

A major theme in Amadeus is Mozart's repeated attempts to win over the aristocratic " public " with increasingly brilliant compositions, which are always frustrated either by Salieri or by the aristocracy's own inability to appreciate Mozart's genius.

An exception is the Week of the Cross ( the Fourth Week ), during which the theme of the preceding Sunday — the Veneration of the Cross — is repeated throughout the week.

Johnson's speech repeated the theme that " dramatized Hanoi / Ho Chi Minh as the aggressor and which put the U. S. into a more acceptable defensive posture.

Pinter's first play was The Room – in which the main character, Rose, is menaced by Riley who invades her safe space though the actual source of menace remains a mystery – and this theme of characters in a safe space menaced by an outside force is repeated in many of his later works ( perhaps most famously in The Birthday Party ).

He repeated this theme in many later works.

Another repeated theme is the preservation of ideas and the generation of myths.

This theme of illegitimate conception is repeated in Arthur's siring of Mordred by his own half-sister Morgause in the later prose romances.

" Buy the World a Coke " repeated " It's the real thing " as Coca-Cola's marketing theme at the time.

Beethoven's approach to the theme is to take some of its smallest elements – the opening turn, the descending fourth and fifth, the repeated notes – and build upon them pieces of great imagination, power and subtlety.

The accompanying chords repeated so many times at the start of each section and the repeated trills repeated from the highest to the lowest registers ruthlessly exaggerate features of Diabelli's theme.

Melodically, it is based on Diabelli's falling fourth, used in many of the preceding variations, as well as, most strikingly, on the least inspired, least promising part of Diabelli's theme, the note repeated ten times.

A repeated theme in his writing on the United States were his observations of the institution of slavery.

The show got a new set on May 2, 2010, with video screens and a library-style set with bookshelves, and different, modified intro music, with David Gregory previewing the guests using a large video screen and with the Meet the Press theme music in a shorter " modernized music with the beginning repeated with drum beats " ( see " High-definition broadcasting " below for additional information ).

Nature and the feelings of magical enchantment that come from it are commonly repeated themes, as is the theme of a fairy-like dancing maiden, often referred to as ' the Queen ', who seems to personify the seasons and the land.

A constantly repeated theme in the book's background are the social, cultural and physical differences between these two locations: Norrland is more sedate, conservative and slow-moving in comparison with the cosmopolitan Stockholm ; a Stockholmer having to live for an extended period in Norrland feels " exiled to the back of beyond "; Norrland is also colder and a Stockholmer coming there must urgently buy warmer clothes ; Norrlanders often speak regional dialects which Stockholm people find nearly incomprehensible ; Stockholm people look down their noses at " a working class boy from Norrland " even when he had lived many years in Stockholm.

Although Jacob Jordaens did not specialize, he often repeated a theme based on a proverb that depicted a wide range of characters of a variety of ages, crowded in a festive scene around a banquet table.