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Use "leitmotifs" in a sentence
"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."