Jane Smiley

Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

American Writer

Miguel Sapochnik

I try to approach all episodic work the same. No matter the content. I look for a dramatic or emotional spine to the story I'm telling, something that stands out to me thematically about the episode and its relationship to the rest of the season/series.

English Director

Noah Hawley

Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.

American Producer

Christopher Cross

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

American Musician

Samuel Ervin Beam

I don't sit and write records from start to finish. I write all the time, and when it's time to record you just look and see what songs you've got that could work together as a group thematically.

Richard Thomas

I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there.

American Actor

G. Willow Wilson

Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

Edmund Husserl

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

German Philosopher

Powers Boothe

One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're singing the same song.

Orlando Bloom

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

English Actor

Understanding the cultural background behind a theme can give deeper meaning to 'thematically arranged' content.

Cultural Insights

Use 'thematically' to clarify that things are grouped by ideas or subjects, not randomly or by time.

Context Importance

'Thematically' is useful when discussing how various elements in literature relate to the main idea or message.

Analyzing Literature

 that's visualized by a professional animator. You can nominate educators and animators in the "Get Involved" section of the site. The TED-Ed library can be browsed through two different lenses. Learners can use the "Series" view to browse videos thematically and based on their own curiosity.

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