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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a key motif" is correct and is commonly used in written English
It can be used when referring to a recurring element or idea in a literary work, film, or artwork, such as a symbol or a theme. For example, "The notion of redemption was a key motif in the novel."
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She is drawn to extremes of experience – violence is a key motif, but so are betrayal and troubled sexuality.
Their quest is to find a lost poet from an earlier literary movement, the wonderfully named "stridentists" (lost, missing, exiled and orphaned poets are - along with prostitutes - a key motif in Bolano's work).
Finally, they placed a copy of Darwin's On the Origin of Species on their mixing console, along with the Hebrew word timshel – the word that becomes a key motif in Steinbeck's novel – and set to work.
Jakobson (1966) put this on the typological agenda and it has been a key motif in Michael Halliday's writings.
A key motif is that of the prison: in an apparent allusion to Plato's myth of the cave, More distinguishes between actual confinement in a cell, rated as a prison in the opinion of the common people, and the more philosophical view that the whole earth is, in effect, a prison and all its inhabitants under sentence of death (CWM 12, 269 70).
Therefore, the E10 box was found to be a key motif that regulates stathmin1 expression through bHLH factors.
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Other standout pieces include a glam rock metallic gold blazer ($2,150), a sheer top with a Roman key motif ($725), a tailored strapless jumpsuit ($995) and an oversized black-and-white lion head print shirt.
Under an elegant roofline "Entrance" sign and behind a wire screen are stray architectural elements from the facade: a terra-cotta bay with an angular shield topped by a leafy garland, a pilaster decorated with a Greek key motif, brackets wrapped in ornamental scrollwork.
SOD1 is a homo-dimeric protein, whose 153-residue subunits fold into a β-barrel composed of eight anti-parallel β-strands arranged in a Greek key motif [2]; short stretches of helix form parts of the subunit interface and electrostatic loop (Figure 1).
The core of these domains is made of seven β-strands within two β-sheets arranged in a greek key motif reminiscent of the immunoglobulin domain fold (Figure 3B).
A recent crystallographic analysis of human MSMB [ 35] showed that the N-terminal domain consists of six β-strands (β1-6) arranged in a Greek key motif, while the C-terminal domain consists of four β-strands (β7-10).
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