Sentence examples for key motif from inspiring English sources
She sings apocalyptic lyrics over a foreboding minor key motif.
She is drawn to extremes of experience – violence is a key motif, but so are betrayal and troubled sexuality.
Well-known for print, this season's key motif featured forest landscapes and branches on elegant dresses and skirts.
Large exposed zips appeared on coats, dresses and skirts for autumn, with eye-catching exposed flies on trousers were spring's key motif.
The key motif is the wound: Leonard begins the movie with two nasty and mysterious scratch marks on his left cheek; in successive scenes these are shown in random stages of bloom, like the Polaroids Leonard takes.
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).
Distance became one of their key motifs.
The base is emblazoned with chunky Greek key motifs that evoke spiraling galaxies.
Just such a transformation is faintly visible in the brickwork at 423 Broadway, which has also managed to hold on to window lintels with spiraling Greek key motifs.
Those familiar with the guilty ghosts of The Devil's Backbone will recognise key motifs in his new fable, about a young girl's exploration of a labyrinthine underworld in Franco-era Spain. Franco-era Spain
Most important, "Slumdog" picks up on key motifs of the classic Bollywood fairy tale: the plucky underdog hero, sibling rivalry, ghetto gangsters and a beautiful damsel needing a rescue.
