One little group of notes (l) I have seen described as a leitmotiv; and if it is one, I should like to know what it stands for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Wagner]

We prefer to make it, if you will, the leitmotiv which is to accompany all our explanations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic] Reference

The leitmotiv of personal productivity is Effort doesn't count.    From Wordnik.com.  [il blog: Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.] Reference

Stop your entitlement leitmotiv 'without us, WB would have nothing.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter Delay Evokes Angry Outbursts Amongst Fans « FirstShowing.net] Reference

I always keep this leitmotiv in my mind in my training approach: I don't care what you know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to the Blog: Life in Qatar] Reference

This has to be repeated as a leitmotiv all the time by those who believe in Trurh and in government's dishonesty.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Those Afraid of Asking Questions about 9/11] Reference

It has been the leitmotiv of New Labour since its inception.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

I have used the change from synthetic to analytic as a leitmotiv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uz-Translations : Linguistics : A History of the English Language] Reference

Played during the ... leitmotiv: Do you think they are p@rnography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Probe] Reference

The opening theme of that epoch-making work runs like a leitmotiv through the movie.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

The "Hand of Gaul" has been the leitmotiv of Fleet Street's volleys against the French.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

'Learn by perception' is a leitmotiv expressed by scattered silhouettes throughout the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dezeen] Reference

Waiting turned out to be a leitmotiv of Schopick's experience as the spouse of a severely ill patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Talking of For years, efforts to undermine the jury system have been a leitmotiv of the law-and-order debate.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Another big push, another procession of coffins... another unwinnable war] Reference

The leitmotiv of XXth century is the constant urge of individuals and groups to look at reality in a new way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Knowledge News] Reference

Something in his work confuses me, even though he does appear to have a leitmotiv going through his work so far.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Runway] Reference

Not thinking yourself in opposition but in convergence to the others has been a leitmotiv of European people ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [cafebabel.com] Reference

Japan Probe Personals: Profiles of the Day leitmotiv: Um …. you feel Japan and the US have similar levels of socialism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Probe] Reference

Elsa's entry is a particularly beautiful example of what I have previously called Wagner's dramatict use of the leitmotiv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Wagner Composer of Operas] Reference

(Information Society Development) Promotion of evidence based librarianship  research with the Euroguide LIS as leitmotiv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Note, in Mr. Witzenfeld's words, the 1929 leitmotiv: the facts aren't important - how they could be perceived or portrayed is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pajamas Media] Reference

This last is the leitmotiv of the Courtauld Gallery's sternly art historical investigation of Michelangelo's Presentation Drawings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - News] Reference

As my last word and closing formula I come back to the leitmotiv of my whole study: Mr Bergson's philosophy is a philosophy of duration.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference

The Overthinker: While in general I agree with you and Voltaire, I wonder if your analogy is the best one to use .... leitmotiv: Thanks!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Probe] Reference

It is necessary to discuss as briefly as may be the leitmotiv, because with Lohengrin Wagner first began to use it with serious purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Wagner]

Logically then, Stauffenberg's moral leitmotiv should be traced back to this spirituality which, for Holderlin, was pietistically tinged.    From Wordnik.com.  [signandsight.com] Reference

'murder' of vuvuzela players will provide the discordant leitmotiv of the new concerto.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page] Reference

P.S. Wasn’t that, incidentally, the leitmotiv in her song “I’m falling into you”?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celine Dion Goes Back To Las Vegas, So Be Careful] Reference

But this leitmotiv, like that of my anger with Bloch, died away, leaving the field clear for that of Albertine’s departure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sweet Cheat Gone] Reference

The leitmotiv (a) is of a serene beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Wagner]

And Maigret longed to repeat, like a leitmotiv.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret's Mistake]

Denial is the leitmotiv of Rajapakse propaganda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asian Tribune] Reference

Leitmotif (also spelled leitmotiv) is from German.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] Reference