This is followed by an elaborate coda, in which all the themes of the preceding movement are worked together, and which brings the chorus to a close.
The orchestral introduction is very free and flowing in character, and its themes are taken from the duet of Odysseus and Penelope, which occurs later on.
The chapter on the prospects of America affords themes for much curious speculation concerning the probable partition of the great republic.
They treat of themes that are not specially à propos of passing events, and therefore they are forced and affected.
A great critic, Aikin on Songs, says that love and wine are the exclusive themes for song-writing.
Scottish scenes and Scottish story are the themes I could wish to sing.
He became president of the Handel and Haydn Society, went abroad for special study, was made Doctor of Music, and collected a store of themes among the great models of song to bring home for his future work.
The voices of Wesley and Watts cannot be hidden, whatever province of Christian life and service is traversed in themes of song, and in these chapters they will be heard again and again.
Then it might be safe and profitable to adopt the topical method and study some one of the vital themes that are treated from many different points of view in the various parts of the Bible.
Sidenote: Why the Gospels are not the earliest] Their position as well as the themeswhich they treat suggest that the Gospels were the first to be written.
Sidenote: Growth of the other epistles] Similar needs impelled other apostles and early Christian teachers to write on the same themes with the same immediate purpose as did Paul.
The present volume has been suggested by repeated calls from ministerial bodies, popular assemblies, and groups of college students for addresses on the themes here treated.
His themes are drawn by preference from the epoch of the Renaissance, and his method is characterized by an objectivity of standpoint and a purity of style exceptional in German writers.
Neidhart sought the themes of his hofische Dorfpoesie in the village, and, as the mood happened to dictate, depicted the peasant with humorous banter or biting satire.
Fathers, husbands, and brothers, all joined in protest against the small waist, and stiff distended petticoats, which were always themes for unbounded ridicule.
The girl was deeply moved, for the vernacular of her old nurse had been familiar from childhood and did not detract from the sacred themes suggested.
He was made to feel that he was guilty of an anachronism in brooding over the war, that it had been forgotten except as history, and that the present with its opportunities, and the future with its promise, were the themes of thought.
Painting inevitably sinks beneath poetry, when devoted to themes that great authors have already treated.
The class must be doing the themes or perhaps Father Arnall was reading out of the book.
He will leave in one half hour, and I do not know when we can meet again.
The length of the lake is about a mile, and the width perhaps half that distance.
The history of the past is at once a storehouse of stirring themes ready to the hand of the artist, and the surest safeguard against both flatness and exaggeration in his work.
We may now turn to the second of the two themeswith which Dryden is mainly occupied in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy.
The text of "Master Humphrey's Clock" afforded the artist many congenial themes for his pencil.
You have had many distinguished men here, and their themes have often been noble, but with which of thosethemes has not my art immemorial and perpetual associations?
The drawback of such themes is, not that they do not conform to this or that canon of art, but that it needs an exceptional amount of knowledge and dramaturgic skill to handle them successfully.
At a later stage we may perhaps attempt a summary enumeration of themes which are not interesting, which have exhausted any interest they ever possessed, and "repay careful avoidance.
It looks to me very much like one of those "blind alley" themes of which mention has been made.
Such themes are not too common, but they do occur.
Many excellent themes would be distorted and ruined by having an emphatic ending forced upon them.
Pray observe that the defect of these two themes is not merely that they are "unpleasant.
It may even be said that some apparently promising themes are deceptive in their promise, since they are inherently incapable of a satisfactory ending.
But there are, no doubt, themes which peculiarly lend themselves to lyrico-dramatic treatment, and we shall all welcome the poet who discovers and develops them.
Alexandrian precept, handed on by Horace, gave to the five act division a purely arbitrary sanction, which induced playwrights to mask the natural rhythm of their themes beneath this artificial one.
It would not be difficult to prolong this catalogue of themes and motives that have come down in the world, and are no longer presentable in any society that pretends to intelligence.
It has been especially dwelt upon in relation to Greek tragedy, of which the themes were all known in advance even to "first-day" audiences.
But it would be a complete misunderstanding of my argument to suppose that I deny the practical, and even the artistic, superiority of those themes in which the tension can be maintained and heightened to the very end.
The last part of The Book of Hours, The Book of Poverty and Death, is finally a symphony of variations on the two great symbolicthemes in the work of Rilke.
Many of the themes in the New Poems bear testimony to the fact that Rilke travelled extensively, prior to the writing of these volumes, in Italy, Germany, France, and Scandinavia.
If they picture the issues of their own minds, they must have been gross and sensual; they ransacked the muck of life, and the grovelling in character, for themes that one should see only by compulsion.
The themes are drawn from the revolution, its hopes and its disappointments.
And these themes spring up, with a freshness and vigor, well suited to attract the pen and pencil.
They bring before you, a new world, with its ancient inhabitants, as themes of contemplation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "themes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
