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- noun Plural form of
leitmotif .
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Examples
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Wagner is the guy who created the idea of leitmotifs, but he did it for opera characters.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
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Wagner is the guy who created the idea of leitmotifs, but he did it for opera characters.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
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Wagner is the guy who created the idea of leitmotifs, but he did it for opera characters.
Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011
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In it, Herrmann used two devices that would become his signatures—employing leitmotifs to signal the reappearance of a narrative thread and writing brief cues to bridge scenes.
'Psycho' Maestro at 100 Jim Fusilli 2011
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Among the book's arresting leitmotifs is the presence and influence of several scientists who were well connected, both to Cambridge laboratories and to American social circles.
Allied in the Quest for Radar Henry Petroski 2011
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Those were the leitmotifs, sounded again and again, of the Kennedy Center's Thursday-night gala concert to open a two-week mini-festival commemorating the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the president whose name the center bears.
A grand display Anne Midgette 2011
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But while Aronofsky's most recent film presented a realistic arc and fully fleshed out characters, his latest one keeps revisiting the same leitmotifs -- domineering mother, damaged daughter, domineering mother, damaged daughter -- none too lightly.
Rob Kirkpatrick: Burlesque and Black Swan: The Showgirls of Burlesque vs. the Showgirls of Ballet? Rob Kirkpatrick 2011
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In it, Herrmann used two devices that would become his signatures—employing leitmotifs to signal the reappearance of a narrative thread and writing brief cues to bridge scenes.
'Psycho' Maestro at 100 Jim Fusilli 2011
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But while Aronofsky's most recent film presented a realistic arc and fully fleshed out characters, his latest one keeps revisiting the same leitmotifs -- domineering mother, damaged daughter, domineering mother, damaged daughter -- none too lightly.
Rob Kirkpatrick: Burlesque and Black Swan: The Showgirls of Burlesque vs. the Showgirls of Ballet? Rob Kirkpatrick 2011
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The thunder of crashing equity markets, the humiliating downgrade of America's once gold-standard credit rating, and stern lectures on financial rectitude from the Chinese Communists of all people are the latest leitmotifs of America's economic decline.
Eric Margolis: Addicted to Debt Eric Margolis 2011
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