Crossword-Solution: LEITMOTIF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Leitmotif | n. | See Leading motive, under Leading, a. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “LEITMOTIF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Character-related musical theme | 1 answer |
| Erda aria | 1 answer |
| Wagnerian melody | 1 answer |
| Wagnerian strain. | 1 answer |
| recurring theme associated with a person, situation, or thought | 1 answer |
| melodic theme | 2 answers |
| MUSICAL composition, feature of a | 2 answers |
| RECURRING theme | 6 answers |
| MUSICAL theme | 6 answers |
| CHORUS ___ | 55 answers |
| Theme | 57 answers |
| Air | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LEITMOTIF (5)
Her beauty had that direct and almost aggressive quality that is like a challenge, and with sophisticated feminine art she had contrived that the dinner gown she chose for that evening should sound the keynote of her personality like a leitmotif in an opera.
These four recur as the LEITMOTIF in Ibsen's plays, but particularly in PILLARS OF SOCIETY, DOLL'S HOUSE, GHOSTS, and AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
THE CHAMPION OF THE WEATHER If you should speak of the Kiowa Reservation to the average New Yorker he probably wouldn’t know whether you were referring to a new political dodge at Albany or a leitmotif from “Parsifal.” But out in the Kiowa Reservation advices have been received concerning the existence of New York.
His canvases were gone and from them his new leitmotif that was maturing beyond Patpong whores in Bangkok to something more thoughtful and original.
The great play was written around him, a blur of disasters and ecstasies, a sort of vast and inarticulate Greek chorus mumbling an obbligato to the leitmotif which is at the moment the purchase of a pair of suspenders or a dinner invitation for the evening.
Quotes with LEITMOTIF (3)
The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in 1797 it was something that had never been encountered before, and would emerge as the baffling leitmotif of a case that was unprecedented in almost every imaginable way.
What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point of our self-consciousness. If ever there was a critic of the fetishizing effect of fascinating and dazzling "leitmotifs", it is Adorno: in his devastating analysis of Wagner, he tries to demonstrate how Wagnerian leitmotifs serve as fetishized elements of easy recognition and thus constitute a kind of inner-structural commodification of his music. It is then a supreme iron…
Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting, and the notes. The cadence had at last developed into a concerto for violin, the instrument of gypsies, with a prevailing rhapsodic "leitmotif". The final movement had revealed itself when they were at the gypsy camp. And now it was complete.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1954–2005).