This overarching sense of inhabiting a digital public space shapes our work.

With the "Oresteia," Hughes seems to have no overarching sense of the trilogy's architectonics.

Here in Axis Tyr there was, at least, order and an overarching sense of purpose.

But, some Democrats say, he is not keenly political enough to help provide an overarching sense of direction for the second term that goes beyond economic issues.

The overarching sense of bunad design is to preserve the way people dressed for festive occasions in one particular era.

Although images of the Holocaust are never seen, its devastation is understood through an overarching sense of destitution and fear.

The system's half-billion dollar budget produces poor student achievement, high absentee rates and an overarching sense of inertia, the report said.

Still, one cannot escape the overarching sense that, for the parents who populate workshops like Ms. Coburn's, youth is too important to be left to the young.

All of this pessimism is countered with an overarching sense of hope and delight that alternatives do actually exist-if only they can be seen.

Though the street bursts with local histories, for the curators it also represents an overarching sense of life, from birth to death, from innocence to the burdens of experience.