The painting's notoriety stemmed from its indictment of a corrupt establishment, but it also dramatized a more eternal theme, that of man's struggle with nature.

We also experience first-hand one of the eternal themes of art: the unrecognized masterpiece.

That evil comes in very ordinary-looking packages is an eternal theme, but it retains its power to fascinate.

The eternal theme of the elements is universal.

To their amusement, he elaborated several versions of his own upon these eternal themes.

While the cowboy theme is really an eternal theme, cowboys per se may not have the magic they had 25 or 30 years ago.

Characters don't talk in iambs, or reach unerringly for eternal themes.

The eternal theme of personal freedom versus social duty and tradition is the main theme of the novel.

"The eternal themes are precisely what Billy Beane wants to exploit for profit - by ignoring them."

She disappears along with the Soviet Union, the motherland abandoned and betrayed, bringing the movie back to its eternal Russian themes.