underlying theme
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunderlyingandtheme
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underlying
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ.ɪŋ/
real but not ...
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theme
noun[C]
uk/θiːm/us/θiːm/
the main subject of a talk, book, ...
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A common,underlyingthemeacross these readings is the pluralistic and transformative powers of critical literacies.
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A more serious problem is theunderlyingthemeof the book.
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Throughout is theunderlyingthemethat modern environmental problems have analogues from the geological past.
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While analogy is anunderlyingthemein many of these articles, several authors address it directly.
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While the organization of the volume is geographical, anunderlyingthemeis to highlight new or contradictory interpretive positions that may lead to new avenues of research and investigation.
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Finally, anunderlyingthemeof this article has been the increasing variety of attachments that older people bring to their communities and neighbourhoods.
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However, anunderlyingthemeof our paper is that empirical evaluations of propositions of this sort are critically important if developmental psychopathology is to continue to thrive as a discipline.
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Anunderlyingthemeis the reluctance of carers to accept support because they perceive service providers as authoritarian and intrusive.
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This is appropriate, since theunderlyingthemeis the continually changing perception of the school music curriculum.
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Unlike most of these theories, however, we integrate these three elements, conceptualizing them as reflecting a commonunderlyingtheme: the development of autonomous human choice, or human development.
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Demilitarisation involving the social and cultural transformation of society is theunderlyingthemeof many of the chapters.
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Oneunderlyingthemewas that most research projects in which aboriginal communities are asked to participate have little local relevance.
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Most of the redundancy resolution methods in the literature have a principalunderlyingthemeof optimizing a measure of performance based on the kinematics of the system.
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Having said that, this reviewer is made uneasy by an historical determinism that seems to be theunderlyingtheme.
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This is, indeed, theunderlyingthemethat traverses most of the sources that he has carefully assembled.
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But a form of financialism looks set to displace scientism, an irony that provides theunderlyingthemeof this introduction.
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This at times gives the impression that theunderlyingthemeof this book is centred at the level of the gene.
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The story serves to highlight anunderlyingthemeof the book: the ability of jazz to blend, or rather 'fuse', with other styles and genres.
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Anunderlyingthemeis that of social welfare and the state's role in providing pensions and health care.
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In spite of such a spread of both disciplines and locations the book is surprisingly focused, united by theunderlyingthemeof recent (relative) coastline movement.
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