leitmotif
Example Sentences
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And it’s the leitmotif of Klein and Thompson’s book.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The book is crowded with characters, but “Sunshine Charlie” Mitchell, the head of National City Bank of New York, provides a sort of leitmotif.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Through these depictions, the show tries to tell the histories of the nomadic, tribal and agrarian communities for whom resilient survival was the leitmotif and cloth a way of narrating their marginalised experiences.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
His love of, and need to, work quickly became the leitmotif of the event.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
The goal of a leitmotif is to help the listener identify a main character or theme in the story.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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