That's the central emotional thrust of this film: what happens when things are left unsaid?

Haven't got a problem with the central thrust of this article.

The treaty's central thrust was to prevent the building of nationwide strategic defenses.

Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity.

The central thrusts will be national security and taxes, they said.

In recent years that effort has formed the central thrust of its diplomacy.

"Standards-based reform" has thus become the central thrust of federal education policy, as it already was in most states.

At least, that's the central thrust of a new book that has provoked fierce debate in the US.

Finally, there is the diary's central philosophical thrust, which exalts living "feeling" over dead "thinking."

My apologies for that, but the central thrust of the article stands.