188 Verbs to Use for the Word theme

Philosophy and Genius would have found, in his benevolent labours, the most ample theme for instruction, and the purest subject for universal panegyrick.

When I wrote my theme on him last week he was so dry I had to go out and get a Morton Sundee (the girls are freshly attacked, though all of this in a subdued way, mindful of others in the library)

These antiphons have formed the theme of the oldest Christian poem in EuropeCynewulf's "Christ," a work which is the admiration of modern scholars.

But as the young man's voicefallen into a melodious murmurceased, she took up the theme with unexpected earnestness.

The vision has furnished the theme of much pious writing and a theme for Christian painters.

Ah, Beltane, when next ye sing, choose you a worthier theme.

Pope, however, went far ahead of his masters in style and in delicacy of handling a mock-heroic theme, and during his lifetime the Rape of the Lock was considered as the greatest poem of its kind in all literature.

It is in that aspect that I shall treat my theme; for, as a philosophical or juristic discussion of the American Constitution, my addresses will be neither as "deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door.

They developed this theme exhaustively, Dwight usually speaking in the third person and always with his shoulder turned a bit from his wife.

" I could not answer this question, and he did not pursue the theme.

Ought the dramatist to say, "Go to, I will write a play on temperance, or on woman's suffrage, or on capital and labour," and then cast about for a story to illustrate his theme?

The morning after the coming of the cavalry-troop, Wesley was discussing the never-ending theme of how he was going to get homewith

Mr. Beck approached that great theme in the spirit of a great judge; he marshalled his arguments with the skill of a great advocate, and the combination of these qualitiesqualities, highly appreciated everywhere, but nowhere more than in this Hall and among a Gray's Inn audiencehas given an epoch-making character to his work.

When correcting a theme, employ more than one sense avenue.

Perceiving, however, that the company was disposed to listen, and having, by this time, recovered the lost ground, in the way of food, he cheerfully resumed his theme.

What is there in any other language, for instance, to be compared with the voluminous writings of Sainte-Beuve, ranging over all history and literature, and carrying into all, that incomparable style, so delicate, so brilliant, so equable, so strong,touching all themes, not with the blacksmith's hand of iron, but with the surgeon's hand of steel.

For the poet of "literary" epic, however, it is his own consciousness that must select the kind of theme which will fulfil the epic intention for his own day; it is his own determination and studious endurance that will draw the theme into the secrets of his being.

She was also carefully reading socialistic themes, Proudhon, Rousseau, and others.

The Parish Church of Preston will constitute our first theme.

He frequently leaves his main theme and follows some line of thought that has been suggested to his well-stored mind.

At lunch the doctor continued his theme, and represented my conduct as most blameable and improper.

(Consider your theme with reference to the general principles of composition treated in Chapter V.) +134.

Yet in some sense these mythologies are a safeguard of reverence in that they provide a theme for humour and profanity and rough handling, which is thus expended, not on the sacred realities themselves, but on their shadows and images.

The scars of his old wounds were near his new, Those honourable scars which bought him fame, And horrid was the contrast to the view But let me quit the theme, as such things claim

And if in the pursuit of high abstractions and improving themes we imitate too closely Wordsworth's avoidance of Personal Talk, our dinner-table will run much risk of becoming as dull as that poet's own fireside.

188 Verbs to Use for the Word  theme