The battle over the control of money has been a leitmotif in American history.

And they apply not just to leitmotifs but to everything.

But "you never know" has been the leitmotif of the economic crisis so far.

When the major makes love to Marie we hear this leitmotif.

The word "leitmotif" is sometimes used in other things such as literature.

The desire to be useful is something of a leitmotif.

Oh yes, the journey had been meant as a leitmotif, she could tell.

Sometimes a leitmotif will change during an opera as the character changes.

But several leitmotifs serve as metaphors for the world at large.

The leitmotif - one of pain - remains the same.

Anger is already a leitmotif in this year's presidential campaign.

Turns out that as leitmotifs go, this one's pretty heavy.

It was becoming a leitmotif in his opera, he said.

Relaxing has always been a leitmotif with presidents, of course.

Extensive use is made of leitmotifs for the various characters.

The melody is heard throughout the film as Mary's leitmotif.

This decorative leitmotif could be seen all over the dining room.

Labels for the leitmotifs are common, but there is no final authority.

The absence of money, is this the leitmotif in the conductor's life?

"How you get from building to building has been a leitmotif in his work."

Pain, the leitmotif of life as a Simpson, is getting another workout.

Managed competition, rather than a free market in health care, is the leitmotif of the reforms.

Betrayal, if there is one leitmotif to this war, runs through it.

The role of keys in the novel acts as a leitmotif.

A leitmotif running through the stories is the United States.

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the leitmotiv for science had changed.

It reappears several times in the book (thus becoming a leitmotiv).

The leitmotiv of streetcars continues, and rail workers continue to work through the night.

For example: there is a leitmotiv for the curse.

This early communion with animals and landscape would later determine the leitmotiv of her inspiration as a painter.

To him, independence was not something achieved: it was a leitmotiv, a mode of existence.

Facades by Philip Glass returns in leitmotiv throughout the movie.

Flames were the leitmotiv of the Third Reich in Berlin.

The Patriote flag remains a visual leitmotiv across the composition.

From this point, Novak will usually whistle the song the children were singing at various parts in the movie, making it his leitmotiv.

As the movie sharpens its comic scalpel, that march becomes a mocking leitmotiv.

With different national origins and cultural background, his readers share a common agreement on the positive leitmotiv his works expressed out.

Wagner introduced devices like the leitmotiv, a musical theme which recurs for important characters or ideas.

By July 1939, the words "betrayal" and "treason" recurred as a leitmotiv in all his articles.

European union is his leitmotiv.

This golden or gleaming egg that fell from heaven is a veritable leitmotiv in mankind's traditional stories of creation.

He often avoided the full orchestra, and he rejected the common practice of using a leitmotiv to identify characters with their own personal themes.

His psychological leitmotiv is complacency, and his geometrical expression roundness.

As said earlier the symbols and logos are often the Leitmotiv in Bijls work.

Yet another leitmotiv in Etruscan jewelry is the Egyptian Scarab.

This experience became a leitmotiv in Sanson's work, as she often expressed a deep nostalgia towards her "forgotten childhood"

Each figure had its own theme, its individual leitmotiv, and its story was partly expressed in music, in song.

The idea and leitmotiv of the musicians wer...

Until November 1936, the leitmotiv of his campaign had been speed, with the rapid conquest of Madrid as the prime objective.

Leitmotiv be damned.