This straightforward response (we think) need not imply any grand, overarching theory of press regulation.

There's no overarching theory, no readily identifiable villain, no single moment to which the current combination of caution, despair, and underachievement that defines studio thinking can be traced.

What has been happening has no overarching theory or grand narrative to claim our allegiance, and much of its detail may not survive the next decade of theoretical reconfiguration.

Scientific controversies are minor and concern the details of the mechanisms of evolution, not the validity of the overarching theory of evolution.

With the loss of interest in overarching theories and development-problems bound to the late colonial era, witch-hunts and witchcraft-beliefs were treated as an issue of specialists.