central idea
Example Sentences
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Her central idea is simple, but radical: your home is not a reflection of your worth.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
“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
“I didn’t want you to know how ugly the world is,” he explains, laying out the film’s central idea.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 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
The central idea of the book is the development of the principle of national independence in both politics and religion from the earlier condition of a world empire.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin
