Sentence examples for constant motif from inspiring English sources

Rather, the head, literally disembodied but not gruesomely severed, becomes a constant motif that symbolizes the dead warrior's spirit.

"It's like a constant motif that punctures throughout the day," she said.

Boredom and its various effects on the spirit, ranging from suicidal despair (suicide was a constant motif in Wallace's work) to a transcendent power of concentration.

"The oddity of resource-poor economies outperforming resource-rich economies has been a constant motif of economic history," wrote Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner in a seminal 1995 study.

He seizes on the fact that Abrahams was dating a D'Oyly Carte mezzo-soprano to use Gilbert and Sullivan as a constant motif so that even a vital hurdles race is set to a chorus from The Pirates of Penzance.

And the flower was a constant motif in the collection — as cherry-red blooms on a mink coat, as embroidery on linen, opened-top bags.

"His garden is very meticulously planned, so he has constant motifs to paint.

And the constant torture motif certainly is significant, if too predictable.

Migration, a constant Complicite theme, becomes the motif that finally links Alice's Baltic father and the Neolithic man: it is as if the history of Europe over 5,000 years is one of search, quest and upheaval.

Both polypurine repeats were relatively constant in the motif frequencies through the distal promoter (-2000 to -500 bp), but gradually increased through the proximal region (-500 to -100 bp).

In constant repetition the motifs, leading characters, symbols, and chronologies of these works have arisen in the teaching of some prophet of the end of the world, each time taking on new significance from associations with contemporaneous events.