Gender, like race, is rarely mentioned and is overshadowed by the film's loftier themes.

Humphrey, who died in 1958 at the age of 63, was drawn to lofty themes.

The rieslings, juicy and concentrated, elevated minds and turned the conversation to loftier themes.

His lofty theme will be the new nature of post-cold war courage.

She approached us timidly, avoided our caresses, nor shook off her embarrassment till some serious discussion or lofty theme called her for awhile out of herself.

The narrative is constantly interrupted by bombastic disquisitions on birth ("a vital moment of beginning"), death ("no laughing matter") and other lofty themes.

Somehow, disparate styles and lofty themes, circa 431 B.C. and 1605, are reflected in a 20th-century musical comedy moment.

The collages celebrate these lofty themes and the art of the Constitutional Court as well as the spirit of all involved in its creation.

But dances - even ones on lofty themes - that succeed in theaters cannot be transferred automatically into churches.

Some Clinton advisers say the Democratic nominee will gradually turn to loftier themes.