The phrase "as its idea" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could be used when discussing the concept or notion behind something, but it requires additional context to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The project was innovative, as its idea was to merge technology with sustainability."
Alternatives: "in its essence" or "at its core".
I'm tempted to write that it's almost as memorable for its imagery as its ideas, although the fact that I'd forgotten about the existence of the half-alive hound that sniffs out wrong thinkers and injects death into them rather undermines that statement.
Its view of the difference between Texas and Mexico is as schematic as its ideas about men and women.
The authors discuss how issues of cultural heritage, patriotism, politics, moral outrage, material aspirations, and exploration shaped America's art as well as its ideas, attitudes, and traditions.
It's a strange sort of hegemony that furthers the idea of Brooklyn as the only epicenter of "hip" culture, even as its ideas of cool become ever more commodified and repackaged into luxury pursuits.
But the poem spread, and, as it did, its ideas filtered into popular culture.
Indeed, the similarity is striking in the sense that The Economist, like Wonkblog or Mr Silver's new venture, has as its unifying idea a particular view and style as opposed to a geography.
As a result, a fruitful area of research in computer science has developed with bisimulation as its core idea (Ponse et al. 1995).
It goes back to the 1980s, when the Ottawa Charter, with as its main idea of a socio-ecological approach to health, was released [ 1], and environmental movements had begun to attract considerable attention [ 10, 52].
The company isn't that sure about its idea though as it plans to offer just two robots for the time being.
Without any personas to hide behind or jokey schemes to bog it down, the band seems freed to follow its ideas as far as they will go.
