Meaning of throughline | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In full through line of action: a theme that runs through the plot of a book, film, or other narrative work, or a series of such related works.
2. A railway route that passengers can take without needing to change trains.

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Examples

“Produced by none other than Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Good Boys again most closely resembles a kind of junior-varsity tryout for that duo's Superbad, down to its modestly affecting emotional through-line: an acceptance of the fact that childhood friendships, forged out of proximity and convenience, aren't always destined to last.”

“The Russian rockets fell on Babyn Yar, 80 years after the Nazi atrocities it commemorates; Zelenskiy’s face was enough to hammer home the gravity of the thematic throughline.”

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