To be fair, "Spiral" has had a running motif in which characters' middle fingers are severed.
The work doesn't always maintain its power; Mr. Zustiak sometimes slips into overused tropes like hysterical laughter or a motif in which one person urgently seeks the embrace of a passive partner.
Its vitality doesn't survive his reworking of it in the ballet studio, represented by a skimpy motif in which the momentum of a slowly swinging, crooked right arm carries his ever-crumpling body leftward from a lean to the right.
In his court claim he accused the advertising firm of trivialising the photo's historical significance by overprinting it with a hammer and sickle motif, in which the sickle was represented by a chilli pepper.
(We won't get into the running motif in which Mr. Jones's character, now the outcast of the group, is disparaged for being "sensitive" and drinking "fruit juice").
A death and resurrection sacred drama arose around the fertility motif, in which a perpetual dying and rebirth in nature and humanity was enacted.
Here the first movement has a motif in which the heroine sits on the floor in profile, pulls one leg up with both hands and aims a pointed foot like a gun at us.
From an opening motif in which a gleaming flute line ascended over contrary peals on a vibraphone, the work played on the tension between stately chord progressions and unpredictable, increasingly brisk rhythmic outbursts.
We describe a new serine protease inhibition motif in which binding is mediated by a cluster of very short hydrogen bonds (<2.3 Å) at the active site.
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction shows that 1 assumes a 2D cationic rhombohedral grid network arrangement, whereas 2 features a 1D zigzag chain structural motif in which Cu atoms are bridged by μ2-bbbm ligands.
Using molecular simulations, we predicted that the binding interface between DARPin off7 and its ligand (maltose binding protein; MBP) is characterized by a hot-spot motif in which binding energy is largely concentrated on a few amino acids.
