Sentence examples for a governing idea from inspiring English sources

Those elements boiled down to a governing idea that he called "the academic dogma": "Knowledge is important.

And these wild places shape not just our culture but our character; they provide, another contributor argues, "a governing idea in the way we perceive ourselves as Americans".

In keeping with a governing idea of recurrence, two or more time-frames are often spliced together, or one line of thought or action is ingeniously refracted through another.

A governing idea, which underlines his choice of the 101, is to trace the thematic and stylistic  lines of evolution and development in an almost entirely European theatre from Aeschylus's The  Persians to Mike Bartlett's Charles 111- both centred on  Royalty in big trouble, thereby incidentally reminding us that some theatrical themes are always with us.

The idea that God's omnipotent power provides him with an infinity of choices out of which he chooses to create only one set of possibilities became a governing idea among subsequent English schoolmen.

The telling of her life story makes it possible to trace a governing idea through her experiences, the experience of being "only a nurse".

But, in the absence of any governing idea, I found myself dwelling on the notion that came up in a panel debate I was on in Oxford last week, that Shakespeare was an advocate of political honesty.

But the play lacks a big, governing idea; and, although Christopher Luscombe's production sensibly trims the text, I find it hard to forgive the omission of the crucial coda in which a modern doctor reminds us that the king was really suffering from a metabolic disorder.

Without following a stylistic party line, they have extended Andriessen's governing idea that classical composition is not a distinct language but, rather, a musical matrix, able to subsume any sound.

The production makes exciting use of the space to express the play's governing idea: that adolescent withdrawal and parental heedlessness are part of a familiar pattern, but that they also contain a secret fury which here erupts in spectacular violence.

One attitude concerns the governing idea of election.