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That’s also why, when “Fjord” opens with soft piano chords playing “Amazing Grace,” it’s safe to assume the song will be an integral motif throughout the film.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Jordan’s mural utilizes the flush mount dome in the center of the dining room ceiling as an Art Deco-inspired star motif, with painted white points extending from it for emphasis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Pumpkins are her most famous motif, featuring heavily in her paintings and giant sculptures.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The Tractor Boys' new home kit takes inspiration from the Sir Bobby Robson and Sir Alf Ramsey stands at Portman Road, with a motif copying the one that runs across the roof of the stadium.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Like a motif, a subject has often changed when it reappears, sounding higher or lower, for example, or faster or slower.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

The "polka dot queen" channelled hallucinations and battles with mental health into vibrant art featuring her trademark dots, nets and infinity motifs over a career spanning decades and continents.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

A novelist explores narrative, making sense of themes, motifs and sensations to try to communicate about the complexity of a globe with some eight billion people in it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

More elaborate designs, including hatched bands, grids, and diamond-shaped motifs, also showed evidence of rotation, translation, repetition, and "embedding," i.e., the ability to build hierarchical levels of signs within the same surface.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

A team analysed the songs of more than 100,000 songbirds and revealed that the world's birdsongs are composed of eight fundamental types of sound that the researchers call "motifs".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Etched brass with leaf motifs and plaster swirls above the door.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour