This theme was greater strengthened by Christie ’ s time spent in the Middle East where she was consistently surrounded by the religious temples and spiritual history of the towns and cities they were excavating in Mallowan ’ s archaeological work.

There have been many different and contradictory attempts to classify traditional ballads by theme, but commonly identified types are the religious, supernatural, tragic, love ballads, historic, legendary and humorous.

Other versions adapted ELIZA around a religious theme, such as ones featuring Jesus ( both serious and comedic ) and another Apple II variant called I Am Buddha.

Over the succeeding 47 chapters, Jesus is recorded as developing the theme that the ancient prophets, specifically Obadiah, Haggai and Hosea, were holy hermits following this religious rule ; and contrasting their followers – termed " true Pharisees " – with the " false Pharisees " who lived in the world, and who constituted his chief opponents.

In addition to traditional, religious subjects, Baldung was concerned during these years with the profane theme of the imminence of death and with scenes of sorcery and witchcraft.

The general view is that the central theme of the Grail is Christian, even when not explicitly religious, but that much of the setting and imagery of the early romances is drawn from Celtic material.

* A theme well-covered in the novel is that of cultures suffering technological breakdowns who then proceed to revert to belief-systems along religious lines.

The association of virtue with withdrawal from society — and specifically from cities — was a familiar theme in religious literature.

The Pilgrims ' story of seeking religious freedom has become a central theme of the history and culture of the United States.

All his speeches at the Parliament had the common theme of universality, and emphasised religious tolerance.

A number of religious cults have included castration as a central theme of their practice.

Stowe's puritanical religious beliefs show up in the novel's final, overarching theme – the exploration of the nature of Christianity and how she feels Christian theology is fundamentally incompatible with slavery.

An example is when Rosa Xuncax sings the eulogy at the funeral of her father and its Native American Maya religious theme.

The opening track, " Kingdom Hall " evoked Morrison's own childhood experiences attending church with his mother and foretold a religious theme that would be more evident in his next album, Into the Music.

Whether religious or secular, the theme of an oratorio is meant to be weighty.

It has been commented that the Idiran-Culture war, with its juxtaposition of a religiously fanatic species fighting ( and eventually succumbing to ) the atheistic Culture, shows the author's theme of " antipathy to religious belief, although nominally not to the believers ".

The psychosis is characterised by an intense religious theme and typically resolves to full recovery after a few weeks or after being removed from the area.

Their first project, the tragédie en musique Samson, was abandoned because an opera on a religious theme by Voltaire — a notorious critic of the Church — was likely to be banned by the authorities.

A design is sketched on paper, often of a religious theme, and this is traced onto the clay.

Kook also opposed the secular spirit of the Hatikvah anthem, and penned another anthem with a more religious theme entitled haEmunah.

As Harriet Guest explains, " the theme Barbauld's essays of the 1790s repeatedly return to is that of the constitution of the public as a religious, civic, and national body, and she is always concerned to emphasize the continuity between the rights of private individuals and those of the public defined in capaciously inclusive terms.

# Education of the variant ... to enable her to understand herself and make her adjustment to society ... this to be accomplished by establishing ... a library ... on the sex deviant theme ; by sponsoring public discussions ... to be conducted by leading members of the legal psychiatric, religious and other professions ; by advocating a mode of behavior and dress acceptable to society.

It also had a strong religious theme, with John's dealings with the First of the Fallen, and some storylines, such as the relationship between an angel, Tali, and a succubus demon, Ellie, would go on to be used again as a major plot device in Preacher, one of his most popular works.

A major theme of the novel is religious redemption, and in the second half of the book Padre Monty becomes to Ray and Doe what Radley was at Kensingtowe.

While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.

Buber made this theme the basis of a famous definition of the tension between Judaism and Christianity:

This is done by choosing an Element for its basis, which affects its theme ; e. g., Air is associated with speech and intellect and would be suitable for a system of spoken spells gained through study.

In the Appalachian and Ozark regions, the hillbilly stereotype formed the basis for financially lucrative commercial interpretations of traditional culture through theme parks and theaters, such as Dogpatch USA in Arkansas, and Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Invitation to the Dance also served as the thematic basis for Benny Goodman's swing theme song for the radio program Let's Dance.

Science fiction scholar James Gunn writes in 1982, " The Asimov robot stories as a whole may respond best to an analysis on this basis: the ambiguity in the Three Laws and the ways in which Asimov played twenty-nine variations upon a theme ".

A theme from his 1717 opera Camille was used as the basis of the collaborative work La guirlande de Campra by seven French composers, written in 1952.

It was never completed ; Bizet later adapted a theme from its final act as the basis of his 1875 overture, Patrie.

* In the anime series, Sailor Moon, the moon goddess's story is used as a theme and basis of the storyline.

The same melody was later used as the theme for the Lutheran chorale O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, which was the basis of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, including his St Matthew Passion and Johannes Brahms.

The damsel in distress theme was also used in The Perils of Pauline ( 1914 ) motion picture serial, which found Pearl White in mortal danger on a weekly basis.

* " The Mission " ( theme music ), composed by John Williams, used as the basis of themes of various NBC news programs

Before Tchaikovsky's version, several ballet productions were based on the " sleeping beauty " theme, amongst which one from Eugène Scribe: in the winter of 1828 – 1829, the French playwright furnished a four-act mimed scenario as a basis for Aumer's choreography of a four-act ballet-pantomime La Belle au Bois Dormant.

One of the Disney theme park creature designers, Jeff Burke, was willing to create the character but only on a moonlight basis.

The motif is used in every movement of this quartet, and is the basis of the faster theme of the third movement.

Dudley uses variations of the theme as a basis for all of the episode's scores and was awarded a British Academy Television Award for her work on the third series.

This theme of " culture war " was the basis of Buchanan's keynote speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention.

Struan has a Chinese mistress, May-may, and their romance is developed within the conventions of the genre as the basis for the novel's optimistic theme of cross-cultural fusion.

A sampling of Roobarb episodes and theme song made up the basis for the 1992 rave single of the same name by the UK group Shaft.

Hanslick writes, “ The essence of music is sound and motion ” and suggests that the proper basis for an aesthetics of music are “ sonically moving forms .” Furthermore, he suggests that these forms extend, or grow, from a freely conceived musical theme.

But Rushdie seems to have assumed that diverse communities and cultures share some degree of common moral ground on the basis of which dialogue can be pieced together, and it is perhaps for this reason that he underestimated the implacable nature of the hostility evoked by The Satanic Verses, even though a major theme of that novel is the dangerous nature of closed, absolutist belief systems.

Each years competition is run on a monthly basis, with each month having a dedicated " theme " for the images to adhere to.

* The same track was used as the basis for the theme tune of the long running Children's BBC Byker Grove, the television program that launched the careers of Ant & Dec ( as PJ & Duncan ), and Donna Air.

This use of the Neapolitan chord ( e. g. the flatted supertonic ) is an important structural element in the work, also being the basis of the main theme of the finale.