Example sentences for: themes

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  • A history of mad-cow disease by veteran science writer Richard Rhodes ( The Making of the Atomic Bomb ). Critics praise Rhodes' lucid explication of complex virology as well as his range--the book includes digressions on political and literary themes and a section on the scandal surrounding a Nobel Prize-winning expert on the disease who recently pleaded guilty to molesting a little boy.

  • The artists on his label--Kane & Abel, Fiend, Silkk the Shocker, C-Murder, Mac, Mia X, etc.--hew to the same gangster themes.

  • The 1260 carving of biblical themes has clear links to French Gothic sculpture, while drawing on models from Roman and Etruscan sarcophagi — a Herculean Daniel and a Mary inspired by heads of Juno and Phaedra.

  • One of the pervasive themes apparent in all types of focus group was related to drug lifestyle.

  • Some are moved by the film's themes of redemption and spirituality; Roger Ebert says it's full of "vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Less kind reviews note the "inadvertently racist overtones" of the relationship between Hanks and Duncan (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and say the movie has the "suffocating deliberateness of a river of molasses" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (David Edelstein the movie in Slate : "not all of the movie is melodramatic, pseudo-mystical drivel--only about two hours and 15 minutes."


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