The word “leitmotif” is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to a recurring theme, usually a musical theme, that is used to represent a specific character, idea, or setting throughout a text. For example, in the film Jurassic Park, the musical leitmotif is used to represent the wonder and mystery of the dinosaurs.
Gone were the jewel-like divertissements, the subtle layers of allegory, the sophisticated use of leitmotif, all replaced by bland pastiche.
Nonetheless, there remained important points of differentiation: tuition fees, for example, became the leitmotif of the nationalist approach – an explicit rejection of the Blairite education agenda.
Security has become the leitmotif of his party's campaign; its first video features F-16 fighter plans and shows Mr Tusk alongside Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, emphasising his links to powerful foreign allies.Jarosław Kaczyński's Law and Justice has accused Mr Tusk of trying to scare Poles and using Ukraine to win votes.
The story unfolds with a blend of accident and ineluctability, the military march, from which the book takes its name, recurring at points as a leitmotif.
Embattled faith Other men's wars What the world is reading A real grouch Reprints Related topics Punjab Asia South Asia India SikhismStrife came late as a leitmotif.
It is the leitmotif of the greatest recent depiction of Istanbul life, Irfan Orga's "Portrait of a Turkish Family".
"Focus on the core business is his leitmotif," says Mr Hennequin.If Mr Hennequin manages to replicate the French success throughout Europe, some say he could be destined for the top job at the fast-food firm's head office in Oakbrook, Illinois.
He then made a glancing, revealing allusion to Nikolai Berdyaev, a Christian philosopher who saw "Russian messianism"—the desire to deliver some great message to the world as a leitmotif in his country's history, linking Orthodox Christianity with communism.
"The way of true love never works out, except at the end of an English novel," wrote Anthony Trollope, quoted as leitmotif by Mr Eugenides.
A leitmotif of his memoirs is the battle by democratic liberals against the communist and near-communist intellectual left as well as against the libertarian right.
This idea, formulated in a recent newspaper article, may be a leitmotif of his next presidency.
