In the end, the goal is overarching, but simple, says Soldatov: "Russian authorities want to make sure that every connection and every move made online in Sochi during the Olympics will be absolutely transparent to the secret services of the country". Sochi 2014: the costliest Olympics yet but where has all the money gone?
It's rare that the caption describing someone's job is both banal and overarching – but in the case of the picture of Sir Tim Berners-Lee above, you have to say it's apposite.
There is an overarching storyline but in true Hitman fashion it's very cryptic and pretty incidental.
In 1877 they had the technology for massive, overarching roofs but they were reserved for things such as train sheds.
He clearly felt impelled to continue with the overarching concepts, but they overwhelmed the songs, not least on Distortion, a homage to the Jesus and Mary Chain.
The effect of Martin's art is not an exercise in overarching style but a mode of moment-to-moment being.
In past years, decisions about multibillion-dollar strategic weapons systems have often been made not on the basis of an overarching strategy but rather case by case, dollar by dollar.
Story — "what happens," the narrative material — is what drives the whole shape and feel of the thing; only it's not one overarching story but a succession of strongly colored phases of a life, each dramatically distinct from the others (though, of course, there's a cumulative effect, too).
He'd put a down payment on a shady house on a quiet street of overarching maples, but he hadn't kissed the city goodbye in order to sit back with his hands on his belly and live a soft life.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen itself borrows heavily from Celtic, Arthurian and Norse mythology for its overarching plot, but also incorporates the profoundly local legends that are woven around the individual rocks and trees of Garner's own backyard of Alderley Edge, lending it a convincing physicality that makes the magic in it all the more believable.
"The stories are all linked through an overarching plot, but this one is unusual in that it is entirely backstory, set in the 1960s," said Tel. "I wanted to write about the Chinese equivalent of the Manhattan Project – it's top secret, which for a fiction writer is great, because you can make stuff up".
