0 a phrase or other feature that is repeated often in a work of art, literature, or music and that tells you something important about it:
The leitmotiv in appreciation of his work is his penetrating intelligence.
Nevertheless, the emphasis on territorial integrity was the leitmotiv of official statements of both governments.
Each scene, episode, or line has to be examined to decipher the concealed leitmotivs of each role and the play in general.
A leitmotiv would have given the book an exciting extra.
The leitmotivs seemed insufficiently distinct to do their duty effectively.
The leitmotiv, diversify, remains the same.
Peace deserves to be integrated into the foreign-language curriculum as an all-embracing leitmotiv and should be regarded as at least as important as learning to communicate in a foreign language.
Gunn's point about the primacy of culture serves as the volume's leitmotiv, though, as he warns, a new single, continuous narrative about the middle classes is neither possible nor desirable.
