throughline

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English

WOTD – 27 October 2021

Etymology

From through (“passing from one side of something to the other”, adjective) +‎ line. Compare Middle English thurghline (“a brail or buntline”).

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Noun

throughline (plural throughlines)

  1. (narratology) 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.
    • 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 4 March 2021:
      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.
    • 2022 March 8, Zoe Williams, “Zelenskiy brings down the house with his speech to the Commons”, in The Guardian‎:
      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.
  2. (rail transport) A railway route that passengers can take without needing to change trains.

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References

  1. ^ “through line, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2018; “through line, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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