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leitmotif
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leitmotif, leitmotiv
1. Music a recurring short melodic phrase or theme used, esp in Wagnerian music dramas, to suggest a character, thing, etc.
2. an often repeated word, phrase, image, or theme in a literary work


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At best, the exhibition could be described as a chaotic assemblage of Rem's architectural projects and theoretical leitmotifs.
That controversial process, as politically loaded as it is culturally complex, is one of the primary leitmotifs of ``El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles,'' an exhibition of Vergara's photographs that opened Saturday at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park.
Che's battle with asthma is one of the book's leitmotifs.
 
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