leitmotif

From the magically poised and immaculately chorded 'Requiem aeternam' of the opening (music which reappears like a leitmotif and closes this remarkable work so hauntingly) to the final ecstatic 'In paradisum', we heard choral singing of the highest order, dramatically moving and often, as in the 'Dies Irae', shattering in its effect.

"The Uninvited," named for the classic ghost-story film that becomes the story's leitmotif, is about a woman taking a pregnancy test, and the circumstances that led to it.

A leitmotif in the book is an assertion of the ancient rhetorician Demetrius comparing the members in a periodic style to the stones "supporting and holding together a vaulted dome." Unfortunately, this passage does not seem to be known to the Renaissance authors under discussion, but Eriksen proceeds in his introduction to emphasize Augustine's use of periodic constructions in certainly influential writings and, more importantly, his ascription of religious significance to such structuring, as symbolic of -- and instantiating -- cosmic order.

While use of the leitmotif has indeed been ubiquitous in film music, I am not really sure we needed a whole section on this topic.

The notion of equivocation, what Garnet calls "opening the mind to simultaneous possibilities and deciding to protect them both," runs as a leitmotif throughout the novel.

The constant unpredictability of the music biz sounds a leitmotif throughout.

The leitmotif is the impact of electronic media and digitization (including CAD) on dissolving boundaries, effortlessly engaging dwellers with the world outside in cyberspace, and permitting complex and dynamic spatial configurations that eschew rigid separation of functions within the house.

The changes are minor, apart from Malakhov's introduction of a white veil; this turns up later as a sort of leitmotif (similar to the veil the witch Madge prepares to cause the death of La Sylphide), finally to assume its bloody color.

Whatever humbug, exploitation, or imposture resided in modern celebrations (and there was plenty), alienation was only one leitmotif in a larger chorus of affirmation." (p.

No more happy land with its own music, her mother's smile its leitmotif. And no more hiding the truth about her marriage.

"It is normal for a new government to blame certain issues on the previous government but this should not become a leitmotif," stated Saxe-Coburg.

QUANTUM MECHANICS SHOULD BE banned as a leitmotif for writers.