The idea that Americans need not shed their past but rather embrace it comes up as a repeated theme throughout the essay.

A repeated theme is that Republicans must present their budget-balancing in a moral context.

The loser-as-hero is a repeated theme in British life.

The suckling of animals by infants was a repeated theme in classical mythology.

The pedals then play arpeggiated patterns which begin a repeated theme and slow down throughout.

His photographic works feature the repeated theme of fusion of man and machine.

A repeated theme in his mature years is art forgery.

Questioning tradition and authority, specifically institutional authority, is a repeated theme on the show.

The repeated theme is that, "farther along" (in Heaven, perhaps), the truth will be revealed.

Portraiture, of the self or others, is a repeated theme in the show.