For the ultimate unifying thread, consider that both teams are deep into their third decade since claiming a championship.

Q: What is the unifying thread in your work?

There is a unifying thread, however, in the way the show tries to demonstrate abstraction's wide scope.

It was the stranger who became the unifying thread in the fabric of all her dreams.

Yet freedom, he says, provides a unifying thread for our national experience.

Parsons's life was divided into fascinating chapters, with her feeling for art as a strong unifying thread.

"I guess the unifying thread is festivals," he said.

If there is a unifying thread it is not immediately discernible.

There is, it turns out, a unifying thread; it's just not a matter of form.

He suspected that Keren's agenda was the unifying thread here.