leading motive

Arrests were made, and the leading motive emerged: revenge.

The orchestra is a relatively small one and in some respects the treatment harks back to an earlier day, when leading motives were less known.

Wagner used what he called leitmotifs (leading motives).

In the native schools of illumination of Western Europe, decoration only was the leading motive.

Not the altruistic desire to reform, but the perfectly practical resolve to enjoy the political rights to which he had a claim was his leading motive.

I continue to see this as the leading motive of this report, for which I thank the rapporteur and my colleagues who contributed their thoughts.

See also Leading motive, under Leading.

In these publications he identified many of the so-called 'leading motives' and gave them names that in many cases are still in use today.

Themes as air, light, sound and movement, which were the central themes in his early work, remainend leading motives in his sculptures.

The search for this great south land or Third World was a leading motive of explorers in the 16th and the early part of the 17th centuries.

A leading motive in his entire body of work is the perpetual unattainability of freedom and the triumph of mediocrity and oppression.

This attachment to Wallenstein, and a spirit of religious toleration, were the leading motives of a strange career of military and political inconstancy.

Moreover Berenger, whose death at the siege of Orléans was one of the leading motives of the book, lived for twenty years after that date.

The music used the idea of leitmotif (in English: "leading motive"), where musical ideas represent characters or emotions, and help the development and understanding of the story.

(His paintings) were treated as skillfully as his (his other works) with numerous variations of the leading motive of tone and color."

Crowne was a fertile writer of plays with an historical setting, in which heroic love was, in the fashion of the French romances, made the leading motive.

A leading motive for the establishment of these districts was the Tokugawa shogunate attempt to prevent the nouveau riche chōnin (townsmen) from engaging in political intrigue.

In Virgil's poetry, a sense of the greatness of Rome and Italy is the leading motive of a passionate rhetoric, partly veiled by the considered delicacy of his language.

Wagner did it famously by inventing the "Leitmotif," or "leading motive," a musical fragment associated with an idea or character, destined to recur whenever the subject was alluded to after its first introduction.

It can be admitted that most of the Foglar's novels are including the leading motive of lonely youth, motive of close friendship of two youths, with some exceptions in relation to the 'group-hero' novels like 'Rychle Sipy' Club and 'Devadesatka'.

"Always this contact or clash of these two poles - these two elements, which can be classically named as "Apollonian" and "Dionysian" - have been for me, even from the point of view of pure movement, a sort of leading motive of my stage works, the whole of my way of seeing and thinking" (1976).