leitmotif
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The Argentine author, whose writing habitually draws on the uncanny, here delivers a blend of superstition, dread and a leitmotif of mental instability in a register of acute psychological realism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Its leitmotif is push and pull: unsettling, bruising, often brutal, yet ultimately life-affirming.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
In the “Barbie” film, “What Was I Made For?” plays a key role — an instrumental version of the song pops up like a leitmotif, soundtracking introspective, existential moments for its protagonist.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024
A leitmotif in "Strange New Worlds" relates to Pike foreknowledge that a life-changing accident lurks in his future.
From Salon • Aug. 18, 2023
And just as the conflicted relationship among Athens and Sparta was a leitmotif of Greek life, so Maya society resounded for centuries with the echoes of the struggle between Mutal and Kaan.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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