leit-motif

This is the leit-motif of all its conferences and probably its most sincere objective, and the one most compatible with its nature.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

In Poland, though nominally protected by the constitution and the public law, only too often the Jewish population of over 3,000,000 souls are the victims of pogrom, riot, assault, boycott; only too openly the objects of a strong and effectively directed propaganda, which has one leit-motif—out with the Jews!

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

In the _leit-motif_, indeed, as Wagner uses it, where

The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

The so-called theory of permanent revolution, which played so large a role in my personal life, and, what is more important, is acquiring such poignant reality in the countries of the East, runs through this book as a remote leit-motif.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

The name Scobell had been recurring like a _leit-motif_ in Mr. Crump's conversation.

The Prince and Betty 1928

Hal's eyes followed her; her cry, repeated over and over incessantly, became the leit-motif of this symphony of horror.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

It has been like a leit-motif through all the drama of this war in France, through the spirit of the French people waiting patiently for victory, hiding their tears for the dead, consoling their wounded and their cripples, and giving their youngest and their manhood to the God of

The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

Meyerbeer gave us a foretaste of the famous leit-motif.

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

The old intimacy was lost; with Wagner the intellectual game of the _leit-motif_ system was substituted for the creative exercise.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

Here, as in his symphonic overture to Scott's "Marmion," Buck has adopted the Wagnerian idea of the _leit-motif_ as a vivid means of distinguishing musically the various characters and their varying emotions.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914