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  • noun A theme that runs through the plot of a film or other dramatic work.

Etymologies

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through +‎ line

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Examples

  • But I think the only throughline is even in From Hell, which felt more like fantasy in some areas, that there’s a certain amount of reality.

    Collider Goes to the Set of THE BOOK OF ELI – Collider.com 2009

  • But my agent and my critique group members really liked him, and my agent suggested using him to create a "throughline" character for Mike to learn from and to show Mike's growth.

    Teens & Nursing Homes 2005

  • Given that there's nothing in Barstow's piece (beyond the laboriously constructed Everyperson "throughline" these features always have) that you couldn't have picked up from Facebook over the last five months, this seems like another way that news organizations are no longer efficient vehicles for news.

    Reason Magazine Tim Cavanaugh 2010

  • Keith Nemitz, the game's creator (also nominated for a WGA award for his work), stresses that the throughline of the scene is that it's an interruption of a violent rape, and not the aftermath thereof -- and that therefore changing the word "dropped" above to "dropping" might alleviate the entire snafu.

    Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls SVGL 2009

  • [UPDATE: I've heard from several DHSGiT players throughout today in email and conversations who didn't take issue with the content so much as with the fact that the "rape scene" represented what Kate in the below comments calls a "tonal shift" away from the rest of the game's throughline that seemed offensive or puzzling because it was so abrupt and misplaced relative to the rest of the game.]

    Archive 2009-02-01 SVGL 2009

  • Peretyatko gives the story emotional heft, an intelligent throughline and glorious singing that turns the simple story from a delight thanks to the deft puppetry into a more moving experience.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout" Michael Giltz 2011

  • Peretyatko gives the story emotional heft, an intelligent throughline and glorious singing that turns the simple story from a delight thanks to the deft puppetry into a more moving experience.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Not So "Good People," Fine "Timon," Lovely "Nightingale" and No KO for "Beautiful Burnout" Michael Giltz 2011

  • [UPDATE: I've heard from several DHSGiT players throughout today in email and conversations who didn't take issue with the content so much as with the fact that the "rape scene" represented what Kate in the below comments calls a "tonal shift" away from the rest of the game's throughline that seemed offensive or puzzling because it was so abrupt and misplaced relative to the rest of the game.]

    Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls SVGL 2009

  • The Who Wants to be a Millionaire conceit pushes credibility to the limits, but if you roll with it, it makes a nice throughline for the film.

    Angels and Demons : Bev Vincent 2009

  • Keith Nemitz, the game's creator (also nominated for a WGA award for his work), stresses that the throughline of the scene is that it's an interruption of a violent rape, and not the aftermath thereof -- and that therefore changing the word "dropped" above to "dropping" might alleviate the entire snafu.

    Archive 2009-02-01 SVGL 2009

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