Collocations withmotif
These are words often used in combination withmotif.
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architectural motif
Forming a ' ' friezelike procession,' ' the local women, peons and ' ' lounging ' ' youths are reduced to architectural motifs.
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central motif
The role of visual imagery in making up for what diplomacy might not achieve is a central motif.
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decorative motif
The configuration of six squares is repeated in the decorative motif on the washstand doors.
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floral motif
The ceiling is decorated with painted floral motif in wood set in bays.
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leaf motif
The fluted columns have capitals elaborately carved with a tobacco leaf motif.
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musical motif
Towards the end of each stanza of verse (the song's secondary hook), the instrument plays a short musical motif matched by dancers with footwork or balance motifs.
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recurring motif
The power of radio is a recurring motif in his work.
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religious motif
By using religious motifs, they legitimized the opposition.
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sequence motif
Therefore, a sequence motif may be conserved through successive replications even if the exact backbones and base structures are not.
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similar motif
A similar motif shows the warrior with two giraffes.
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structural motif
The active compounds share a common structural motif : a protonatable amine moiety separated from an ionized sulfonate moiety by 2 or 3 methylene groups.
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traditional motifs
Its design is a combination of a high-technology theme and the use of contemporary and traditional motifs.
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visual motif
Industrial production - its scale, architecture and skyline - became the definitive visual motif for towns in which it had been previously integrated.
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