Maybe by that time you'll know what your through-line is.

Q. Was the through-line of the play clear to you from the beginning?

But there is no sense of the production having a through-line or specific conceptual purpose.

Finally, one day in late December, the director discovered both a title and a theme, or "through-line."

Here is a lovely glimpse of the through-line in Moliere.

Don't bother trying to read between the lines, and don't look for a through-line.

But real life very rarely has what movie producers are this year calling 'a motivation through-line' - have you noticed that?

That bartender who explains it all is irrelevant and irritating, but he does provide a through-line.

"There is no dramatic arc, but an emotional through-line will accumulate by the time the performance ends," he said.

But there was little development of movement here or sense of a continuous through-line in any of the group pieces.

I loved some of these waves, but I hankered for a stronger overall arc or through-line.

"Angelica would have a whole through-line here, but the choreography would probably look like a sequence of movements."

The through-line is starvation and dying.

The play's through-line is muddled and unbelievable.

"You want a narrative through-line," he says.

A through-line passes platform 7 (sometimes referred to by railway staff as platform 9, its former number) on the eastern side of the station.

"And athletes want to be artists because that same through-line is the instant gratification of the crowd and being in the moment.

What's missing is an emotional through-line.

The through-line is Mr. Kos's catholic approach to materials.

The answer will guide your plot, because whoever's story it is will determine your through-line (which we'll discuss below).

The through-line of the plot is the composer's quest to win custody of his daughter from his estranged wife.

"In preparing to play Ray, my through-line was 'How many spells can I cast through poetry?' "

"Poor Theater" has a natural narrative through-line (well, kind of) that you don't expect from the Wooster Group.

Mr. Solano's attempt to dramatize a conflict, establish a through-line or arrive at a resolution is negligible.

"From Klein through Ryman, I suppose that was the through-line in my gallery - a kind of silence.