"motif" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But the movie is still a delight, a fascinatingly strange and chaotic ballet set to familiar noir motifs.
- And the primary vehicle for this excursion is that most profoundly familiar yet persistently engaging motif, the human face.
- Some of the others reprise familiar motifs.
- It was fine, sheer cambric, delicately embroidered all over with white silk thread in a familiar motif.
- In a familiar mythic motif, Aeëtes promised to give him the fleece, but only if he could perform certain tasks.
- They are mostly based on the theme of big waves, a familiar motif in Japanese prints.
- The horse is a familiar motif in John Hawkes's fiction.
- Dragons are a familiar motif in Japanese art and architecture, literature, and popular culture.
- It was also a familiar motif in emblem books and tombs.
- The rugs were clearly an occasion to think big, sometimes by merely scaling up the familiar motifs of traditional samplers.
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