But while Mr. Schlosser is impassioned and articulate about these inequities, he never pulls his thoughts together into a larger thesis about underground economies and their relationship to mainstream society.
Yet while "Everything Conceivable" is based on the proposition that people crave babies, it has a larger thesis to prove: that the increasingly complicated ways people are going about making babies is transforming babies and the world.
Her comment about Orthodox men and prostitutes is part of a larger thesis developed in "Scapegoat": Israelis have overcompensated for the historical weakness of European Jews, their womanlike character of passivity in the face of oppression, by becoming macho dominators themselves, of women and of Palestinians, whose manhood has been taken away from them.
Druckerman's challenge was trying to fit the facts into a larger thesis that "the French" (who in her world are educated professionals living in the Paris area) handle pregnancy, childbirth and early childhood better than obsessive, competitive American hyper-parents in places like Park Slope.
Often, he managed to smuggle the basics of the plot into a larger thesis about the movie, so that you don't notice the exposition taking place: " 'Broadcast News' is as knowledgeable about the TV news-gathering process as any movie ever made, but it also has insights into the more personal matter of how people use high-pressure jobs as a way of avoiding time alone with themselves".
Sakoda says the commitment to Jeter and Messler's vision for Players Tribune is part of a larger thesis that opportunities still exist in new media properties.
Still, the impulse to shake things up and to look across continents is generally healthy and the large thesis instructive.
However, it is important to consider that PS is a part of the items used to calculate the BS-BM score, leading to a large redundancy between theses 2 univariate prognostic factors.
The Exodus story provides an allegory of oppression and redemption, while it illuminates his larger thesis about the Jews and America, one learned nearly half a century ago at the feet of his great predecessor at Commentary, Elliot E. Cohen.
But his larger thesis — that Ayatollah Khomeini and Margaret Thatcher spearheaded a retreat from the values of the Enlightenment back toward those of the Middle Ages — is so thinly reasoned as to seem to warrant its own entry in Wheen's encyclopedia absurdica.
