Female figures with arms outstretched were a recurrent motif.

But there are also recurrent motifs of a possibly more poignant kind.

The show is organized according to the recurrent motifs of the gold stamps.

A recurrent motif is their arms raised, wrists touching but hands free.

-- that would become a recurrent motif in his fiction.

The relationship of literature and life is a recurrent motif throughout his major work.

But there is also a recurrent motif of traditional answers to contemporary problems.

Since then it has become one of the primary and recurrent motifs of the century.

This makes sense with an artist for whom there are so many recurrent motifs and patterns.

One of the many recurrent motifs in the book is the portrayal of ships.