Definition of "leitmotifs" [leitmotifs]

• Plural form of leitmotif. (noun)

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• "Wagner is the guy who created the idea of leitmotifs, but he did it for opera characters."
• "Those were the leitmotifs, sounded again and again, of the Kennedy Center's Thursday-night gala concert to open a two-week mini-festival commemorating the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the president whose name the center bears."
• "But while Aronofsky's most recent film presented a realistic arc and fully fleshed out characters, his latest one keeps revisiting the same leitmotifs -- domineering mother, damaged daughter, domineering mother, damaged daughter -- none too lightly."