Audsley's overarching theory of organ design has been considered either eccentric or particular to its period, and was never adopted fully by any builder.

"At a time when Americans were drawn to ideologies of all sorts, he was not wedded to any overarching theory."

The difficulty is that there is no overarching theory.

Another patient, Bill, has an overarching theory about holiday funk.

No book which offers an overarching educational theory of higher education can afford to neglect teaching and learning; or so it must seem.

Physicists presume that the answer is yes, that some more overarching theory should explain these and other mysteries.

An overarching theory of criminal defenses is the doctrine of necessity.

No longer are designers striving for an overarching theory of mind.

However, Japan did not have an overarching racial theory for Asia well into the 1930s.

Rather than seeking an overarching criminal theory to explain Enron's collapse last fall, the government is continuing the strategy it adopted early in the investigation.