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What is a leitmotif?

What is a leitmotif? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
  2. A recurring theme.
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The stern and wild leitmotif was underlined with a hefty and very pleasant fruit dumpling in butterscotch sauce to finish.
An unprecedented and happy mix of sound fundamentals and cyclicals is the leitmotif for the Indian economy and business in the short term.
The cult of artistic and existential evasion in Dada and surrealism made suicide a leitmotif of literary life in inter-war France.
In existence as a virtual community since 1990, APC's leitmotif is building and strengthening online networks for social change.
In these symphonic poems Liszt has made use of the principle of the leitmotif in orchestral music.
His advocacy of public-private partnerships has also been a leitmotif of his Treasury years.

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