One could also discern in it certain frequently repeated choreographic motifs.

He repeated short motifs endlessly, as if meaning to grind them into the keyboard; a stylistic descendant of Thelonious Monk, he pared down Monk's already quite cropped melodic lines to percussive nubs.

Melancholy thematic fragments were repeated in Robert Een's recorded score, and the choreography repeated motifs of stumbling and supporting.

The punchong potters continued to inlay, but into stamped, almost textilelike fields of pattern and irregularly repeated motifs instead of the refined incisions of the Koryo period.

The laisse is characterized by stereotyped phrases and formulas and frequently repeated themes and motifs, including repetitions of material from one laisse to another.

Using this well-practiced routine, she repeated certain popular motifs many times, though she insisted that she never did any scene exactly the same way twice, and she was right.

It exists as a superior way of transcribing emotions, or rather of notating shifting balances, repeating motifs, accumulating tensions, deferred resolutions and elaborated variations.

The effect is similar to that produced by DJs who repeat musical motifs across a range of very different tracks.

Mr. Reich's music often takes dictation from the speakers, imitating their inflections, repeating rhythms, motifs and harmonies hidden in individual voices.

Early decoration tended to be repeated motifs derived from textile designs.