leitmotif
noun
a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
leitmotiv
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a variation of
leitmotif.
Example Sentences
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Therefore I trust that the defense of that freedom will become a leitmotiv of the European Security Conference.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sound of these instruments would reverberate from Russia to Spain and supply the leitmotiv of constructivism.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a shortened season filled with the sloppiest play since the ABA, the Knicks are thriving on the wildness that has been this season's leitmotiv.
From Time Magazine Archive
While in Lohengrin Wagner showed himself as much as ever the inspired musician, he made for the first time use of the leitmotiv for dramatic as well as musical ends.
From Richard Wagner Composer of Operas by John F. Runciman
