Sentence examples for overarching figure from inspiring English sources

Simile is the overarching figure of this book -- the figure of likeness that bears always within itself the seed of unlikeness.

"He is the overarching figure of Italian design," said Richard Wright, the auction house owner, tracing that arc from the 1920s, when Ponti began his career as an architect, industrial designer and editor in Milan (he founded the Italian magazines Domus and Stile), to the 1970s, the last decade of his life.

He exemplifies the kind of conscientious, ground-level reporting on which the NBS relies for its overarching figures.

Application of the conservative fuzzy AND rule resulted in the most negative scores in the assessment scale for most of the objectives by all three overarching strategic goals of BSAP (Figure 1).

Three overarching themes were identified (see Figure  2): 1) women's beliefs about their illness, 2) perceived consequences of illness, and 3) strategies used to cope with illness.

The overarching design was also familiar.

It is not "irrational", but it contains no overarching pattern.

Three overarching themes were identified (Fig.  2).

Figures  1 and 2 illustrate the process by which the overarching themes were developed.

Indeed, Bush's sound bite where he refers to the issue of overarching purpose as "the vision thing" has become a metonym applied to other political figures accused of similar difficulties.

In most such conversations, overarching themes emerge.