central idea

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“His central idea was that to live is to act, transforming oneself and the world around,” Ms. Riskin writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The central idea was the same: to have more control over their creations.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

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

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

Kant's central idea is that truth, beauty, goodness, are not dependent on some qualities of the object, but on the universal nature or law of consciousness.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich