Ms. Gresh said one uniting theme is the "complexities of identity".
A uniting theme, however basic, can provide a starting point for appraising a new or uncommon piece.
If there's been any uniting theme of the conference it is virulent condemnation of Mike Ashley, who has overseen a regime of exploitation and zero-hours insecurity in his role as Sports Direct proprietor.
With a topic of this seriousness, it may seem petty to dwell on cryptic sentences or the lack of a uniting theme in paragraphs held together by intellectual duct tape of weakened stickiness.
Certainly Atwood acknowledges the baggage of stored-up rancour that one can amass over the years; indeed, if this collection can be said to have a clear uniting theme, it might be that by a certain stage of life we've all got at least one person we would really like to kill.
Most of the text is given over to methodical presentation of research, with the uniting theme that optimistic assessments of mobility are badly wrong.Conventional research has it that society is highly fluid: the effect of inheritance is almost nil in some Nordic societies, and family explains no more than 25% of an adult child's status in America, which has always been less mobile.
The uniting theme, though, is distance, in time, from today's dramas, which are played out from 12 camera angles, in minute-by-minute web blogs, Twitter and just about still in newspapers, so that the modern need for instant gratification leaves even the participants struggling to impart new insights when they sign lucrative memoir deals.
Russell (1997 and 2008) has proposed that Clarke is a major target of Hume's Treatise, and that Hume's opposition to natural theology as defended by Clarke is a uniting theme of the Treatise.
Yet Eckstine's musical tragedy, of being too hot, is a uniting theme of Hajdu's work, which in its best moments explores the edges of musical and cultural classifications and formally defined eras.
As the ground's main stand, it houses many of the ground's more popular facilities, including the Red Café (a Manchester United theme restaurant/bar) and the Manchester United museum and trophy room.
