Example sentences for: thematic

How can you use “thematic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Writing in the New York Review of Books , Luc Sante defends DeLillo against the perennial charge that his novels are schematic: "Large thematic strokes may define his architecture, but within lies continual surprise at the fluidity and resilience of the human condition."

  • Each candidate is trying to marshal his assets on this battleground by building a thematic bridge to it from the issue he is already winning.

  • A wisecracking porn shop clerk (Joaquin Phoenix), whom Welles has hired as a tour guide, delivers the film's thematic warning: "There are things that you see that you can't un-see, that get into your head.

  • Other semantic categories have been set forth by Roget; still others by March in his Thesaurus ; and thematic arrangements have appeared in words like Picturesque Expressions, Allusions , and other books prepared by and under the direction of this reviewer.

  • An actor of stature might have bridged these two impulses, but the beautiful, brazenly slim-hipped Rhys-Meyers doesn't make his lines sound as if he's thinking them up on the spot, and Slade's self-destructive passion for Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor), the film's fuzzy, sweet Iggy Pop figure, seems less an emotional imperative than a thematic one.


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