The rapid rise of the Tea Party also gave networks an overarching theme for election night coverage.
There's the overarching mystery of what happened that night as a kid.
400 years on, the further reaches of the garden contain an overarching canopy of trees; a festoon night-lit tunnel has emerged.
Placed within the overarching theme is a journey through the seasons, night and day, even featuring the creation of the universe and the forging of the Castle Mound from molten lava.
What ensues is some sex, some violence, and some heartfelt moments of community, but the overarching question raised is that, even though he's selling his body by night, how does it compare to selling his soul by day?
Framed by the overarching story of Shahrazad, the King's young bride, who tells him a story every night as a way of preventing her new husband from killing her, the stories tell of genies and sultans and hoards of gold and jewels.
Pass a nursery school with purple bunting, a sign commemorating Clement Clark Moore, the developer who also wrote Twas the Night Before Christmas, and there it is - a four story brownstone tucked beneath overarching trees, not a sign or even the tiniest of plaques.
"The coolest night in London back then was called 'Back To New York.' You had this overarching idea that being cool was about recreating late seventies New York.
The concepts seem a little fuzzy at times, but the overarching thesis is that it is time to rethink the common wisdom of how to achieve success: sleep four hours a night, work 20 hours a day, see your family rarely and never admit the need for downtime.
Those were our overarching principles".
