central idea

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“His central idea was that to live is to act, transforming oneself and the world around,” Ms. Riskin writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

That painful history can be alchemized into thrilling entertainment is both the central idea and the takeaway experience of “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the jaw-dropping Encores! revival that opened on Wednesday at City Center.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024

“But what really interested me is the central idea of betrayal, which, now that I think of it, has figured in a lot of my films,” Jewison told the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2024

This is the central idea behind the concept of the "lunar Anthropocene," or the theory that the geologic history of the Moon has entered a new geologic phase because of human interference.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2023

But such a view is utterly one-sided, and to fight against such one-sidedness and to overcome the specializing narrowness of the scattered sciences was the one central idea of the plan.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various