How to use "motif" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "motif" in popular movie and book plots

  • The main motif of the book is stated in the poem at its end: Make way, you people, for our stride.  - A Struggle for Rome
  • A nail murder was a motif of crime in ancient China.  - The Chinese Nail Murders
  • The watercolor image of a dense forest with a winding path hangs over Martin's crib and becomes a leading motif in his life.  - Glory (novel)
  • The site was a Native American burial ground (a common motif in early works by author Stephen King).  - The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
  • Graveyards, both figurative and literal, recur as a motif in the narrative.  - The Graveyard Game
  • This is a motif throughout the story.  - Today We Choose Faces
  • Also, the question mark motif made its first appearance here as a regular element of the Doctor's wardrobe.  - The Leisure Hive
  • This short example from Czechoslovak history underlines the motif of forgetting in his book.  - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
  • The motif of the novella is a doppelgänger (dvoynik).  - The Double (Dostoyevsky novel)
  • This is a motif inspired by the book of the same name, which is part of the Old Magic, in contrast to Cadellin's High Magic.  - The Moon of Gomrath
  • Peer meets three amorous dairymaids who are waiting to be courted by trolls (a folklore motif from Gudbrandsdalen).  - Peer Gynt
  • Another motif deals with the favorite foods of the five main heroines.  - Kanon (visual novel)
  • Their lives continue to intersect in everyday situations: a recurring motif is the loneliness of eating alone.  - In the Mood for Love
  • A recurring motif in the book is Toranaga engaging in falconry.  - Shōgun (novel)
  • Throughout her life, Vianne has been running from the "Black Man", a recurring motif in her mother's folklore.  - Chocolat (novel)
  • Despite its setting, Jeremiah's underlying motif is of hope and the survival of mankind.  - Jeremiah (comics)

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