Sentence examples for a leitmotif through from inspiring English sources

One of the dancers was Mr. Grenke, whose looping, soft-bodied solo recurred like a leitmotif through the piece.

The frenetic pursuit of what, in one letter, he called "free freedom" runs like a leitmotif through Rimbaud's life: few poets have walked, run, ridden, or sailed as frequently or as far as he did.

Are they not brothers, the artists and the soldiers?" The name of Cranach runs as a leitmotif through the study by Lynn H Nicholas of Nazi looting of art, The Rape of Europa (1994).

Variations on the phrase "the differences between them" — encompassing age, class and religion, but also "his accent, his crippling wistfulness, his way of eyeing the walls when he spoke to her, or about her" — run like a leitmotif through the opening sections of the novel.

The tension between liberal ideals, pragmatism and authority ran like a leitmotif through books like "The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest and the Foundation of Liberalism" (1984), "The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority" (1994) and "Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy" (2007).

I find that there is a leitmotif running through three-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb's work.

Running like a doleful leitmotif through the catalog are such comments as "Cesnola's 'restorations' have drastically altered this unusual sculpture" and "these heads may not have originally belonged to the bodies".

Monica Edinger of The New York Times found When You Reach Me to be "a hybrid of genres, it is a complex mystery, a work of historical fiction, a school story and one of friendship, with a leitmotif of time travel running through it".

For Ya Ru, one of China's new masters of the universe, "The necesssity of revenge left its mark through history like a leitmotif".

Despite the occasional ferocity of her diary, a leitmotif of tolerance and understanding runs through Anne's often fanciful short stories, and Otto Frank established the Anne Frank Foundation to combat racism and prejudice.

Discrimination linked to caste in accessing education or employment has been a leitmotif in modern India and only partially addressed through constitutional provisions and reservation policies.