It can be an overarching theme, a worldview, a moral position, a thought experiment, or might be simply a mood or characterization.
See Random Access Memory by Daft Punk as an example of an album with an overarching theme.
Messing around with those vintage instruments, playing with different people's voices, Mr. Ward's job as he sees it is to capture something: less an emotional state or an overarching theme than an instant.
A&E saw an overarching theme: "A cross between 'The Beverly Hillbillies' and 'The Waltons.' " A family dinner would cap each episode, Mr. McKillop said.
I think we compartmentalized our campaigns and didn't have an overarching theme, an overarching message.
But to Mr. Birbiglia's creative mind, that's an overarching theme, not a lecture topic.
When presenting concerts devoted to contemporary music in a variety of styles, an overarching theme can provide context.
If there is such a thing as a Holbrooke Doctrine, it probably has less to do with an overarching theme of engagement than with a predisposition toward engagement itself.
But the flexible musical rhetoric of the sets felt like the right move for the main theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where jazz is often presented with an overarching theme, program notes and a set list published in advance.
A collectively expanding solidarity is perhaps an overarching theme that seems to bind the ideals of work (The rise of humaneness, see ch. 3).
He gave me an emphatic 'yes', noting "with Stories there's a really good platform to have an overarching theme that I think would end up being hysterical.
