Sentence examples for leitmotif at from inspiring English sources

Mr. Barrett has booked him for Thursday night as part of a Cuba leitmotif at the 2009 Caramoor International Music Festival.

For example, dead parents are a leitmotif at Disney: think of the plots of "Bambi," "Lilo and Stitch," "Finding Nemo," "The Lion King".

The interplay of fluid and structured shapes was also a leitmotif at the studio of Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, the team behind Proenza Schouler.

Crushed frills are a leitmotif at Comme des Garçons, as are fraying ruffles; droopy ruffs; distressed pompoms; drab roses of wilted tulle, eyelet, crinoline, and broderie anglaise; and the round collars and polka dots that Kawakubo wore as a fauvish girl.

He drew attention to the woods -- with their black snakes and deer -- by setting many of the greens back against the forest, and rather than dynamiting away the fractured stone outcroppings, he used them as his leitmotif at Tot Hill Farm.

As I start mentally flicking through the group photos of my life, it's nearly always the same, a leitmotif: always at the edge, always apart, them and me.

The number three is a leitmotif, as it is in the design of the garden of the French chateau at Villandry.

It could thus be seen as a leitmotif of her recital program at Carnegie Hall tonight with James Levine, which includes Tchaikovsky songs (the focus of one of her first recordings in the mid-90's) and some of Mahler's most poignant vocal works, the searing Ruckert Lieder.

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.

Sometimes it is to hate the English a leitmotif of Scottish nationalism dating back at least to 1320, when a bunch of Scottish nobles declared, in a letter to the pope, that "as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule".

Fear and suspicion are leitmotifs, sometimes addressed, at other times demonstrated.