Even perennial themes can be given a lift by current events.
The effort to revamp the nation's health-care system has been a perennial theme in American politics for the last half-century.
The emotional tug of the first places people have lived is a perennial theme in American culture, despite Wolfe.
But those experiments also developed Blondie's perennial theme of eroticism as a hunger that is both real and manufactured.
The first series explores the perennial theme of the artist in the studio.
The concept is a perennial theme in the literature and arts of English-speaking countries.
But the fight is sure to be ugly, and it is already churning up the perennial theme of race here.
A perennial theme of American art is the rise of the modern city.
Readers familiar with jazz history will recognize this perennial theme.
Love and lament are perennial themes in the lyrics of the Roma.