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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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This is another of his leitmotivs that elaborate on Benjamin: In a fascist manner, such images have produced a pervasive "empathy for the technology of war.
We may need to recall the lives of dying artists and the work they created and let art paint their faces, sculpt their shapes and contours, and compose leitmotivs.
Stevenson also employs a range of dance leitmotivs, characteristic steps for each character, which in places leads to a certain dance monotony, although Stevenson sidesteps this in his duets, which are typically fluent and imaginative.
 
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