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Leitmotif
Definition:
(n.) See Leading motive, under Leading, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) She is credited with bringing a softer, more feminine image to the party, founded in the 1970s by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose notorious leitmotifs were xenophobia and support for the death penalty.
(2) A superb, dangerously over-worked, standing self-portrait, Painter Working, Reflection 1993 portrays the ageing artist wearing only unlaced boots, holding a palette and knife (he was left-handed), addressing the viewer like a silent actor; invariably paint applied imaginatively to the planes of walls and floor reads as though a leitmotif for the prevailing mood.
(3) Rush Limbaugh does not count as a troubled asset, I’m sorry.”) In 2010, though, Obama felt comfortable enough to let a little loose on a theme that would come to be leitmotif of this weaponised political comedy.
(4) As Private Eye’s Ian Hislop said in his recent Orwell lecture, suppressing truth and suggesting falsehood have been leitmotifs of politics since time began.
(5) Treating immigrants with compassion – a leitmotif of his visit – left many Latinos lining his route to the parkway hopeful about the future, regardless of xenophobia from Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner.
(6) The other constant leitmotifs of the Milosevic career were treachery and betrayal on a grand scale.
(7) The final musical analogy must be the hope that the first page of the score can be found, so that we may discover the main theme, the leitmotif, of the rheumatoid-specific antigenic peptide.
(8) Relative decline was a leitmotif of the 1960s and 1970s when even Italy claimed sorpasso .
(9) Semi-wakefulness is clearly a leitmotif here – third track Longing for the Night is another one about being half awake in the morning, dreaming of sleep and, perhaps, an escape from his overactive imagination and the problems of the day.
(10) In an exclusive interview with Le Nouvel Observateur to be published on Thursday, Hollande addresses the term, already set to become a leitmotif of his beleaguered administration.
(11) Devolution and integration are wonderful leitmotifs, but are unlikely to be achieved at the stroke of a pen.
(12) "The leitmotif which I recognise in Galileo's work is the passionate fight against any kind of dogma based on authority.