What makes the movie all the more effective is that in Tobey Maguire's diffident, self-effacing performance, viewers aren't given the idea that inside every nerd there lurks a superhero -- the basic thrust of Superman -- as much as the idea that inside every superhero there lurks a nerd.
You might wonder how a craft as facilitating (and, ideally, invisible) as translation can change the basic thrust of a book.
"We are changing the basic thrust of the company from an acquisition and thus, expense-driven, model to a customer-focused, revenue-driven organization," Mr. Lewis told investors at a December 2000 conference.
Michael Levine, a Harvard Law School professor, former official of the Civil Aeronautics Board and a former executive at Continental and Northwest, said that "in the basic thrust of Continental's argument, they are right".
Just before Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, visited Brazil earlier this week, Brazil's president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, strongly criticized the tariffs and said they contradicted the basic thrust of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a regional trade accord that Mr. Bush has urged Latin American nations to join.
By 1962 Mao had apparently begun to conclude that the techniques used by these comrades in the first line not only violated the basic thrust of the revolutionary tradition but also formed a pattern of error that mirrored what he viewed as the "modern revisionism" of the Soviet Union.
McCain, by continuing the basic thrust of Bush's tax policies and adding a few new wrinkles, would cut taxes for the top 0.1percentt of earners — those making an average of $9.1 million — by another $190,000 a year, on top of the Bush reductions.
Its basic thrust can be characterized in four words: pound on a plank.
David Woodward, fellow at the New Economics Foundation and previously an adviser at the IMF and World Bank, said the documents reveal a "business-as-usual scenario, with little or no change in the basic thrust of its development approach".
To anticipate the basic thrust of our findings: while there has certainly been a growing research interest in economic evaluations in developing countries supporting the investment in certain drug-based strategies to tackle (part of) the problem, major research gaps do remain, both in some geographical regions and in particular in the major domain of non-clinical interventions.
