central idea
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It can feel overstuffed, and some sections of this thematically arranged presentation can feel tenuously connected to the central idea of “what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The pair spent the next several hours honing the central idea and spitballing about plot and character development.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
The new kind of fair mobility is a central idea of degrowth.
From Salon • May 3, 2024
That painful history can be alchemized into thrilling entertainment is both the central idea and the takeaway experience of “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the jaw-dropping Encores! revival that opened on Wednesday at City Center.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
Hence the Church has ever clung with a tenacity of grasp, which shallow hearts could ill understand, to this central idea, the indefeasible wedlock of heaven and earth in the God-man.
From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.