Sentence examples for leitmotif through from inspiring English sources

One of the dancers was Mr. Grenke, whose looping, soft-bodied solo recurred like a leitmotif through the piece.

The frenetic pursuit of what, in one letter, he called "free freedom" runs like a leitmotif through Rimbaud's life: few poets have walked, run, ridden, or sailed as frequently or as far as he did.

Running like a doleful leitmotif through the catalog are such comments as "Cesnola's 'restorations' have drastically altered this unusual sculpture" and "these heads may not have originally belonged to the bodies".

Are they not brothers, the artists and the soldiers?" The name of Cranach runs as a leitmotif through the study by Lynn H Nicholas of Nazi looting of art, The Rape of Europa (1994).

Variations on the phrase "the differences between them" — encompassing age, class and religion, but also "his accent, his crippling wistfulness, his way of eyeing the walls when he spoke to her, or about her" — run like a leitmotif through the opening sections of the novel.

The tension between liberal ideals, pragmatism and authority ran like a leitmotif through books like "The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest and the Foundation of Liberalism" (1984), "The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority" (1994) and "Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy" (2007).

The actual subjects of the novel, however, were ideas about transmission, reception, codes and connectedness, and the dense network of symbols and leitmotifs through which these were conveyed.

She has a musical gift for connecting her characters' experiences through leitmotifs, through shared patterns of behavior, and together with her talent for evoking mood and atmosphere it lends this often unwieldy novel moments of genuine power and verisimilitude.

(The sickness-as-glamour leitmotif runs through Gordon's work.

And the survivor has been a very important leitmotif all through them.

Sufi verses and music of the kind deplored and persecuted by fundamentalist fanatics provide a universal and humane spiritual leitmotif running through the story.