How to Use thematic in a Sentence

thematic

adjective
  • The set of three includes three thematic shapes: a pumpkin, a bat, and a ghost.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • This is an episode that owes more than a small stylistic and thematic debt to Lost.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2021
  • As a time capsule of the moment, both the film’s thematic concerns and its look are dead-on.
    Kyle Smith, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Despite this thematic weight, though, the films are light on their feet.
    Isaac Feldberg, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The FaceTiming is thematic to the movie, which is about two friends who live far apart.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The show plays it pretty straight, but the thematic gray area remains.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • As long as the songs are a sonic and thematic match for the realm of Purple Rain, who cares whether a tune appeared in the film?
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 June 2024
  • The ending may seem forced, even comic, but is very much to thematic point.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • If there are thematic areas the tool has not yet mastered, Moxie refers the child to an adult.
    Lindsey Tramuta, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2021
  • But yeah, there were ideas on what the thematic narrative that was going to run through the four nights that went on for a month.
    Josh Cornfield, Quartz, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Upon sharing the title track, Khan referred to it as the thematic core of the album.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The thematic here—as in so many films after—is justice.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 23 May 2022
  • As a thematic answer: Maybe love is stronger than death.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • But the video is still a part of rap lore that Metro and Future decided to use as a thematic framework for their project.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This left time for the band to get existential about the EP’s thematic concerns.
    New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Season 2 takes place abroad, and with the shift away from America comes a change, too, in thematic focus.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The best films in each thematic curation will also get a gong.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The large thematic touchpoints for what would become Meow Wolf’s L.A. space were sketched out about two years ago.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
  • And how is Billy Bob Bo, the thematic center of Batiste’s new album, doing at present?
    A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The end result is a sharp thematic pivot that soars higher than the mixtape that came before it.
    Ted Davis, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • That the Hardy Boys books, in all their blue-spined loveliness, are a visual and thematic motif is of course not a random choice.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2021
  • And striped scarves in house colors — red and gold for Gryffindor or green and silver for Slytherin — can serve as thematic garlands on the mantel.
    Frank Rojas Erik Carter, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Every line builds thematic texture, instructing us on how to read, and what to take from it all.
    Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
  • But, yeah, on a larger thematic level, food carries a lot of weight, and as a chubby person, it’s been a big part of my life.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 July 2024
  • The exhibition, arranged in broad, thematic terms, opens with loose study sheets and pages from the artist’s sketchbooks.
    Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 18 June 2021
  • What would be the thematic throughline connecting all the seasons?
    Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
  • But this book became my white whale and I got caught in a wide net of symbolic details and thematic statements that sank me.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 May 2024
  • The doubters, Rogers said, tend to be people who grew up looking at fashion in that narrative or thematic way.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 June 2022
  • For its part, PETA says that faux fur not only is a preferred substitute but also can advance a film’s thematic goals.
    Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But these sibling name sets take head-scratching thematic naming to an entirely new level.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 5 Dec. 2024

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