It was, he told her, a reworking of old themes, just another book about schools.

But this is an old theme, dating to the 60's.

Gender politics is the latest variation on an old theme, a welcome sign that women have come into their political own.

Immigration is then the oldest theme in our history and the most nearly universal.

He once pointed out to me that, really, day trading is just a new variation on a pretty old theme.

In a sense, that word is merely the latest variation on an old theme.

How the glass seems to be bringing together so many of my old themes, he wrote.

The story is a grim variation on an old theme.

It was the old theme again: the same paranoid song.

After two days of liberty, his thoughts turned to an old theme: America.