leitmotif
主题词,主旋律,主题曲,主题思想
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- : a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
- : a unifying or dominant motif; a recurrent theme: A leitmotif in science fiction is the evolving relationship between humans and machines.
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Examples
That calm patience is a leitmotif that has defined the journey of a woman who has arguably become the most important politician of the 21st century.
A leitmotif on journalism threads through this often-byzantine narrative.
The complexities within that religious order, renowned for its scholars and loyalty to the pope, make for a numbing leitmotif.
The leitmotif of the new vogue in bad parenting is that keeping the marital buzz buzzing trumps the children.
In her direct and genuine nature there is a 'Leitmotif' of pure sweet melody that will enrich the life of its discoverer.
And the "Wacht am Rhein" seemed to come and go at intervals, like a leitmotif to all their doings.
Like a leitmotif in a musical composition, this love of Dulwich College recurs again and again in his war letters.
Here is the leitmotif of the whole fascinating drama of infection and immunity.
He will come back, murmured Chavvy, in concordance with her leitmotif.