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The phrase "leitmotiv behind" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English. It is typically used to describe the recurring theme or motif that is underlying a particular concept or idea. Example: The leitmotiv behind all of the protagonist's actions in the novel was his desire for revenge.
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It has to become a leitmotiv of British foreign policy".
Of the three, passionate hostility to Communism was the leitmotiv of his policy.
Jean-Michel Othoniel has been using glass as a leitmotiv in the conception of his work.
It traces the leitmotiv of the myth of America's newness, and the secondary myth of nature.
The handsomest example, Jane Freilicher's painting "The Cool Drink," provides a kind of leitmotiv for the theme.
The simplified and abstracted power of these rocks resembles the Leitmotiv in the music of Richard Wagner, whose influence on French late 19th-century culture cannot be exaggerated.
The search for "some other kind of meaning" has been a leitmotiv in Johns's art and in his public statements.
"There is always a common leitmotiv in the Three Wise Men's Procession that gives it unity," said Delia Piccirilli, the director of the procession.
Germanophobia has become a persistent leitmotiv in the crises that have enveloped the most vulnerable, and predominantly southern, economies of the 17-member currency zone.
This duality — outsider and insider, advocate and operator, insurgent against the established order and defender of the status quo — has been the leitmotiv of Ashcroft's life and career.
As ever, though, Mr Miliband still likes to make a speech with a framing idea – a leitmotiv like the responsible capitalism call in 2011 and the one-nation Labour refrain in 2012.
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