motif

How To Use motif In A Sentence

• In far northern Europe, bicephalous animal motifs seem to be traceable at least as far back as the early 7th millennium B.C.
• Certain batik designs, like the parangrusak motif, are still considered sacred as they were specially designed for sultans, their consorts and crown princes.
• Pop music has no purer form of insufferableness than the I-love-my-child motif.
• It was for them a blameless activity, and involved a charming motif of the new art. Times, Sunday Times
• There are motifs, themes, and recurring melodies, all the things you'd expect from one song blown up to forty minutes.
• This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
• Short strings of words, prefabricated motifs, are here the building blocks to be arranged with respect to rhythm and rhyme, linking verbal and nonverbal themes in a composite system.
• In addition, the floor was paved with a nice mosaic "carpet" in black, white, purple, and orange, representing central guilloche motifs, bordered by bead-and-reels that were lined by chevrons. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Urban Mansion Report 5
• The bunkhouses were log cabins, and the other buildings were of the same motif.
• The introductory 11 verses end with 6 standard galliambics, setting off the two principle lines in the middle and their motifs as the most emphatic.