The number three is a leitmotif, as it is in the design of the garden of the French chateau at Villandry.
Not surprisingly, disorientation is his leitmotif, and it can border on the oppressive, especially given his blunt limitations as a singer (and his habit of multitracking himself across two or more octaves).
For "The Trial" — which Richard Brody recently picked as his Movie of the Week — Welles used Albinoni's Adagio as a leitmotif, subjecting it to manipulations that he likened to avant-garde techniques of musique concrète: the tape was slowed down, sped up, distorted, and otherwise defamiliarized, in keeping with the Kakfa source.
For "The Trial"—which Richard Brody recently picked as his Movie of the Week Welles used Albinoni's Adagio as a leitmotif, subjecting it to manipulations that he likened to avant-garde techniques of musique concrète: the tape was slowed down, sped up, distorted, and otherwise defamiliarized, in keeping with the Kakfa source.
Sex is a leitmotif: Strayed likes it, and had packed condoms.
As the source notes indicate, it is largely based on what has already been written in the national press about the BHS and Arcadia boss, but it is thorough and well written, with a linking narrative that makes a rattling good story, and a 'would you believe it' leitmotif throughout.
That is why a long white coat over a short dress was a leitmotif of the collection: It had a semitransparent insert at the hips of the coat, opening a slit window on the body — in fact, a technological treatment similar to burning away.
And after last year's referendum it became the leitmotif of Scottish politics: Labour and Conservative politicians repeatedly said it was being delivered.
For the Victorians, the grip of this conundrum went far beyond its scientific significance: it became a leitmotif for exploration itself, a quest comparable in emotive and symbolic force to the race to the moon in a later century.
