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leitmotif

[ US /ˈɫaɪtmoʊˌtif/ ]
[ UK /lˈe‍ɪtmətˌɪf/ ]
NOUN
  1. a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas)

How To Use leitmotif In A Sentence

  • Alfian agreed, but he signposted the missing scenes with leitmotifs and distributed to the audience the excised portions of the script.
  • With the no-doubt unintended effect of suggesting that Wallace's menace and ensuing mayhem might, in hindsight, be laughed-off like a good-ol'-boy joke, "George Wallace: Settin 'the Woods on Fire" takes part of its title, and its misguided musical leitmotif from a wacky, Hank Williams party-hearty song. Film/Television: Lost Highways
  • In his piece about Awana, he writes amusingly about taking a pee and I couldn't help but recall the moment when the great man, he of pulchritudinous prose, goitred with soliped leitmotifs, crenellation and spittle, took one next to mee. AA . . . On The Piss
  • His advocacy of public-private partnerships has also been a leitmotif of his Treasury years.
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  • In fact, dramatic combinations that are made without fuss, fanfare or vanity could be the leitmotif of this menu. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cult of artistic and existential evasion in Dada and surrealism made suicide a leitmotif of literary life in inter-war France.
  • The title of one of Dietrich's best-known songs could serve as the leitmotif for her life.
  • The stern and wild leitmotif was underlined with a hefty and very pleasant fruit dumpling in butterscotch sauce to finish.
  • Wild at Heart" is Lynch's punchiest, campiest and most violent movie, featuring Willem Dafoe's spectacularly shot-off head, a severed hand, lots of sex, vomit, dirty talk and a leitmotif of gigantic close-ups of matches igniting. David Lynch's New Peak
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