"overarching storyline" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the main or central plot that ties together all of the smaller subplots in a story. Example: "The overarching storyline of the fantasy novel was the journey of the chosen one to defeat the evil sorcerer and restore peace to the kingdom."
The A.V. Club named Fringe the 15th best show of 2010, stated that the episode "Peter" gave "the series' overarching storyline a devastating emotional core", making the series a "rare blend of inventive ideas, wild ambition, and unexpected soulfulness".
The A.V. Club continued, "...The season-two episode "Peter" finally dramatized the moment that changed [Peter's] life, giving the series' overarching storyline a devastating emotional core, based in a father's love instead of in theoretical concepts.
The A.V. Club ranked Fringe the 15th best show of 2010, highlighting "Peter" as an episode that "finally dramatized the moment that changed [Peter's] life, giving the series' overarching storyline a devastating emotional core, based in a father's love instead of in theoretical concept".
There is no campaign mode, no overarching storyline.
There is an overarching storyline but in true Hitman fashion it's very cryptic and pretty incidental.
While an overarching storyline set in the present day inches forward, the majority of each episode flashes back to reveal how a particular name ended up on Dylan's list, like a trip in a sexual Tardis.
We then reread each text looking for specific material including images, metaphors, scenarios, rhetorical devices (such as association depicting two concepts as similar or related and dissociation depicting two concepts as dissimilar or mutually exclusive), underpinning assumptions (eg, about the safety or reliability of technologies) and overarching storylines.
The Netflix highlight: "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina," Part 2. This second part is essentially a new season, but does follow overarching storylines from Part 1.
174 Meta-narrative reviews aim to explain complex bodies of evidence through mapping and comparing different overarching storylines.
Discourse analysis requires a judicious balance between teasing out the broad overarching storylines within which 'facts' are presented ('macro-' or 'big Discoursesses) and undertaking detailed micro-analysis of particular texts ('micro-' or 'little d' discourses), while recognising the reciprocal relationship between these two levels.
In most such conversations, overarching themes emerge.
