109 examples of motif in sentences

J'ai l'honneur de remettre sous ce pli à votre Excellence une lettre que j'ai reçue d'un de mes concitoyens les plus distingués, avec une correspondance touchant une matière à laquelle il me semble que le Danemark ne soit guère moins intéressé que ne le sont les Etats Unis; le premier y ayant contribué le digne motif, l'autre en ayant heureusement accompli l'objet.

The motif is settled by a majority of large, granular cells, which stain a distinctive yellowish-brown when the gland is fixed in a solution of bichromate of potash.

Through it like a golden thread ran for a motif little melodies that had to do with a man who had staggered into Fort Desolation out of the frozen North, sick and starved and perhaps wounded, but still indomitably captain of his soul.

Thus the triangular motif is sustained throughout, from the three low doorways in the screen up to the far-distant roof.

There is the same long raincoat that runs as a motif through all the other pictures.

" Through many others of his letters rings this vain "leit-motif" like the wail of Tristan.

These opinions do, in their various keys, sound a similar motif to mine.

Naturally he did not admire Augustus Clarence Percy Marmaduke Grobble (learned in millinery; competent, as modes varied, to discuss harem, hobble, pannier, directoire, slit, or lamp-shade skirts, berthes, butterfly-motif embroideries, rucked ninon sleeves, chiffon tunics, and similar mysteries of the latest fashion-plates, with a lady undecided).

These medieval coronets, which were repeated even on the peaks of the chimney pots, were the everlasting decorative motif of an industrial city little given to dreams and lusting for lucre.

It is a cosmopolitan community, tooas cosmopolitan as it can be and still retain its Senegambian motif.

Thus it is written; the missionary motif in the Scriptures.

Thus it is written; the missionary motif in the Scriptures.

Betty happened to have bluebird plates and she used paper napkins with a bluebird motif.

Who makes our cause and wrong The motif of his song; Who sings our racial good, Bestows us honor's place, The cosmic brotherhood Of geniusnot of race.

In the centre group of Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment," we have the same leading motif, but treated in a very different feeling.

The Virgin in the act of suckling her Child, is a motif often since repeated when the original significance was forgotten.

He lies extended on her knee, and she looks down upon him with hands folded in prayer: or she places her hand under his foot, an attitude which originally implied her acknowledgment of his sovereignty and superiority, but was continued as a natural motif when the figurative and religious meaning was no longer considered.

The Virgin is seated in glory, with her Infant on her knee, and encircled by cherubim; on one side an angel approaches with a basket of flowers on his head, and she is in act to take these flowers and scatter them on the saints below,a new and graceful motif: on the other side sits John the Baptist as a boy about twelve years of age.

The infinite variety which painters have given to this most simple motif, the Mother and the Child only, without accessories or accompaniments of any kind, exceeds all possibility of classification, either as to attitude or sentiment.

The motif of the tale and the kind of life described in it alike show the primitive conditions out of which it had its rise.

Hence a motif that may seem to us insufficient and remote as the subject of a great epic arose out of the necessities of actual life.

un juste motif de lui déclarer la guerre.

Je ne sais, au reste, ce que vous penserez d'une imagination qui est venue à mon fils: elle est bizarre, il en convient lui-même; mais le motif est pardonnable et même délicat: c'est qu'il m'a prié de lui permettre de n'arriver d'abord chez vous que sous la figure de son valet, qui, de son côté, fera le personnage de son maître.

Le beau motif qu'il me fournit ! J'amuserai

donc le motif de ses refus?

109 examples of  motif  in sentences