Using "motif" in a sentence

Julian came up with a shield motif after contemplating the experience of the African diaspora.
Source: Houston Chronicle

Both Twin Peaks and Laura use the motif of a painted portrait of its deceased character, suggesting that the pair are intrinsically linked.
Source: Far Out Magazine

“It started as super high contrast but is softening into a more tone-on-tone look that enables this motif to be more versatile and less trendy.
Source: Forbes

You can select a dark theme motif over light mode, or vice versa.
Source: AARP

The temporary installation by the dot-obsessed Japanese artist in MIA Park also includes one of her psychedelic oversized sculptures of flowers, a recurring motif that harks back to her childhood hallucinations.
Source: Art Newspaper

) Moreover, the motif of nostalgia for a bygone, less urban America, at least as showcased by characters who look like the ones here, reverberates uneasily in 2022.
Source: The Brown Daily Herald

From 2020’s The Album, Pretty Savage boasts a nagging motif and Korean-English raps, encapsulating the appeal of this most successful of girlbands: tough-girl “attitude”, but delivered with big, soaring choruses and sharp choreography.
Source: The Guardian

We slipcovered the pair of Clara slipper chairs in Utopia Goods “Paradise Cocoa” and we really felt that the colorful bird motif was a great bridge fabric that brought many of the colors in the room together.
Source: Furniture Lighting & Decor

For each TF documented in the JASPAR (2020) TF motif database, we computed its mean expression (TPM) and examined the frequency of its motif(s) within the CREs located in the TSS ± 10 kb region of its predicted target genes by SCENIC80.
Source: Nature.com

The circular motif is apparent from the turning blades of the fan outside Laura’s bedroom to the ring, donuts and coffee cup rims.
Source: 25YearsLaterSite.com

Who, if not Midas, could have that filename? In addition, a spray motif was leaked that shows a chrome-plated Midas hand.
Source: EarlyGame

the motif throughout my work.
Source: KYMA

Faux fur mittens ‘Tis the season for cozy cold weather accessories! These impossibly soft faux fur mittens feature a chic plaid pattern available in both a blue motif (pictured here) and an all-brown colorway.
Source: StyleBlueprint

In a corner adjacent to a floor-to-ceiling image of Cohen cavorting with his former girlfriend and fellow artist Joni Mitchell — whom he met at the 1965 peace-loving Newport Folk Festival — is a section focused on his fascination with guns, a motif that appears throughout his writing and art.
Source: Toronto Star

A militaristic motif lands on the Tinker Hatfield-designed silhouette.
Source: Chemical & Engineering News

Providing the motif for the ‘Trionfo’ kit is the starburst-shape of the Place Charles-de-Gaulle, mostly known as Place de l’Étoile, where the cyclists lap the Arc de Triomphe en route to the finish-line on the Champs-Élysées.
Source: Endurance.Biz

“It has always been thought that he discovered the cypresses after his stay at the asylum, that this is what fueled his imagination and that he had more or less ignored the most eye-catching motif in Provence before he got there,” said Susan Alyson Stein, the Met’s curator of 19th-century European painting, who is organizing the exhibition.
Source: The New York Times

Furthermore, the absence of protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) requirements for LbuCas13a targeting29 suggests that virtually any position within or nearby a phage transcript could be edited and selected through LbuCas13a counterselection.
Source: Nature.com

A simple DNA gate motif for synthesizing large-scale circuits.
Source: Nature.com

Each motif acts as a command “word,” directing an action inside the cell.
Source: Drug Target Review

These four hydrophobic residues are symmetrically located on the crossover immediately after the two key prolines as part of a duplicated and conserved crossover sequence motif (P(N/Q)XΦΦ; where Φ is a hydrophobic residue) (Fig.
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 Dior Pre-Fall 2023 by Kim Jones in EgyptDior Pre-Fall 2023 menswear by Kim Jones(Image credit: Courtesy of Dior)Here, in the shadow of the Grand Pyramid, Jones set to once again trace links between himself and Christian Dior, using the symbolic star – a longtime motif of the house – as its guiding force.
Source: Wallpaper*

Producer Doug Rasheed converted Wonder’s deliberate synthstring motif into slashes worthy of Bernard Herrmann and made the bass an ominous background figure.
Source: Billboard

  A recurring motif is the comparison of Operation Desert Storm to the Vietnam War.
Source: Indie Film Hustle

 1b, shows a ladder motif proving its belonging to the Italian production of paper, specifically from the city of Fabriano, from the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Source: SPORTSNET

("WAKE UP!" is a recurring motif of each episode's beginning.
Source: CNET

Sahakyan’s approach relied on a motif that acknowledges the terrible loses in a poetic manner inspired by Mardiganian’s recollection of her home life during childhood: Since Mardiganian’s father had a silk business for which he dyed cocoons in a variety of colors, Sahakyan decided to use cocoons as a symbol to represent each of the protagonist’s family members who perished during the genocide.
Source: IndieWire

This motif notably takes root in the main villain as an irony, who always forces its victims into the titular grin in an inversion of expectation to the meaning of happy faces before using their bodies for acts of unspeakably grievous self-harm; Acts whose primary witness is always next in line to be targeted, reflecting the often virulent spread of trauma.
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The brand’s last collection, SS23, featured a Sankofa motif – a backwards-looking bird, which is a symbol of Ghana’s Akan tribe.
Source: Wonderland Magazine

Donor repair templates were designed to (1) destroy the protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) and/or gRNA seed sequence required for Cas9 targeting and so prevent further modification of the site following integration; (2) provide a recodonized stretch of sequence proximal to the target cysteine for the generation of integration-specific amplicons at mutated sites.
Source: Hindustan Times

Both the cup and the coaster have a smooth polished feel to them, and are decorated with an elegant tiger orchid motif inspired by Tan’s “The Tiger of Singapore” art piece.
Source: Lifestyle Asia Singapore

Indeed, after extensive catalyst evaluation (see Supplementary Information Tables S1–S6), IDPi 2 was found to be a particularly promising motif and afforded product 6 in quantitative yield with an e.
Source: Nature.com

Generally, R-M systems comprise two contrasting enzymatic activities: a methyltransferase that catalyze the transfer of a methyl group to nucleobases within a consensus motif of ‘self’ DNA and a restriction endonuclease that recognizes and cuts invasive DNA that possesses the same DNA motif when not methylated.
Source: Nature.com

“She transforms silver and gold from vintage jewelry that she finds at flea markets into new creative pieces, from rings incorporating colored resin to hook bracelets and chain necklaces featuring thunderbolts, a motif borrowed from the local tattoo artist [and painter] Bobar.
Source: The New York Times

This formal dining room is adorned with decorative moulding in a rectangle motif that extends across the corners of the room for a modern iteration of a classical detail.
Source: 425magazine.com

Heaven as a motif finds its way into nearly every aspect of the film from plot themes to set design to the dialogue to Kate and Leo just being angelic performers.
Source: Patheos

But sometimes no motif is evident, as in a collar where the lace pattern is tiny, and goes every which way, as if the pattern were based on the scribbles of very small adept child.
Source: The New York Times

In case you can’t quite picture this, we have a running motif where Michael’s youth is depicted as an old-fashioned sitcom — a device that feels clever at first, but wears thin.
Source: Greensboro News & Record

Enrichment analysis of PIF-regulated genes among DEGsWe tested the previously proposed hypothesis that the recruitment of genes intersecting with the PIF signaling network is a common motif in the evolution of distyly supergenes22 by verifying whether the DEGs identified between L- and S-morphs of Primula, F.
Source: Nature.com

" "Wu Tsang has contextualized this age-old story with honest reverence and a gripping new motif for the whale," said Alex Poots, Artistic Director and CEO of The Shed.
Source: Broadway World

Between the sad and sometimes brutal human encounters is a vivid and dreamy interior life — including a recurring scene/motif of a young circus woman’s (Sandra Drzymalska) tenderness towards him — conveyed through Skolimowski’s sometimes psychedelic sequences (aided by cinematographer Michał Dymek’s stunning camera work).
Source: Santa Barbara Independent

The bottom line is that the iPhone 14 embodies the “this year’s iPhone” motif Apple has been going with since the introduction of the iPhone X.
Source: Review Geek

Maynard's "before I pine away" motif serves as the lyrical backbone, and it's not until eight minutes in does "Reflection" begin to reach it's tipping point slashing guitars, before it's quietly dialled back in to wrap up proceedings.
Source: Metal Injection

Later games changed format from 2D to 3D platformer, but the pop culture parody motif remained consistent throughout the series.
Source: Mezha.Media

The newly unearthed painting depicts a bird-like deity surrounded by warriors, a motif researchers will work to decipher.
Source: Hyperallergic

Though Tabasco is quick to denote Lucia’s little red dress in the premiere as the best visual representation of the character, the sequined lilac minidress with the heavenly motif is also special and appears significant to Lucia’s growth.
Source: Who What Wear

Formal similarities between the Sharp and Dürer overwhelm, as the Dürer Knot motif is displayed dead center and the reverberating circle patterns of Dylan’s head of hair give us two very similar representations of mystical spiral affirmations, disseminated in the popular mediums of posters and prints over 500 years apart.
Source: Art & Object

But Mahler seems to realize the motif most effectively by giving it to the plucked string instruments — guitar, mandolin and harp.
Source: The Michigan Daily

'Wednesday' Production Designer Shares Secret Behind's Wednesday and Enid's Fantastical Attic Dorm Room Complete with a giant spider web-motif window, Wednesday's side of the space is dark and dramatic, decorated sparingly with intriguing vintage and antique items in a nearly all-black palette.
Source: PEOPLE

Throughout the Doodle game, the motif of the Channel F's distinctive yellow cartridge (which allowed interchangeable games) ties the experience together.
Source: Ars Technica

“My dad always thought it was a western motif business,” he says.
Source: Architectural Digest

When he found a trope or motif – eye, mouth, drum, sofa, bed – he drew it repeatedly.
Source: Nico Kos Earle ArtLyst

Since then, this motif has been a signature element of his style.
Source: Brooklyn Rail

In case you can’t quite picture this, we have a running motif where Michael’s youth is depicted as an old-fashioned sitcom — a device that feels clever at first, but wears thin.
Source: Arizona Daily Sun

The living area has a neo-classical motif and is cosy and friendly.
Source: Luxebook

Observing a motif in this year’s lineup as indie filmmakers continue to emerge from the pandemic, Sundance Director of Programming Kim Yutani said: “Filmmakers are grappling with how we are reassessing our place in the world.
Source: Deadline

The recognisable superyacht, Project X was delivered in August 2022 and features exterior design from Ken Freivokh Design, with a highly distinctive central motif of X-shaped elements on both the port and starboard sides of her superstructure.
Source: SuperYacht Times

Yet, he uses violence from the first page to make the text engaging and create a motif for Rufus, his fictional journalist, to write this story: “So, yes, there was an accident, a fire.
Source: PopMatters

Flattened figures were arranged around central disks — a motif representing the traditional frame drum in Inuit dances.
Source: The New York Times

*The first Journey Stamps are inspired by Starbucks rich history and classic designs, including Starbucks first location in Pike Place Market in Seattle, as well as this year’s “Gift-Wrapped Magic” holiday cup art and motif shapes.
Source: Starbucks Stories

Primarily achieved via a recurring motif of atonal bells and ambient soundscapes, the score is also supplemented by a throbbing, heartbeat-like percussion that echoes Salander’s simmering anger as well as the encroaching danger at hand.
Source: Indie Film Hustle

G-CSF granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, IP-10 C-X-C motif chemokine 10 (CXCL10), MKC mouse keratinocyte-derived chemokine, MCP-1 monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (CCL2), MIP-2 macrophage-inflammatory protein-2 (CXCL2).
Source: Nature.com

Surf  Picking up on the water motif used throughout both Swimming and Circles, Mac sings from a more positive outlook on water, using the pain he experienced while “drowning” (“Come Back To Earth”) to “grow.
Source: This Song is Sick

Tom Rogers’s design strikingly links the worlds of the action – Claire’s home; the imaginative space of talking toys; fairytale castle and cottage – via the time-motif of clocks, their cogs and wheels.
Source: The Guardian

Sicilian-American artist and designer Gabriella Picone, whose work incorporates iconography as a means for storytelling, points to the prevalence of the motif in design today.
Source: Architectural Digest

The CRISPR–Cas9-targeted sequences and the protospacer-adjacent motif sequences are shown in blue and red, respectively.
Source: Nature.com

This location is underwater, and the motif used was a dungeon from the original FINAL FANTASY VII that’s in the sea.
Source: Noisy Pixel

But Shea finds a chicken motif that needs to fly the coop.
Source: Sportskeeda

  Photographic evidence of a person’s history becomes a strong motif in this beautiful, voracious coming-of-age romance.
Source: Roger Ebert

In the mid-set “Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again),” another Kristofferson song, Willie picks up the motif from his “Whiskey River” solo, now treating it with a tenderness of touch that matches the lyric.
Source: Pitchfork

Williams’s sketch showed a mosaic of broad-leafed tropical plants—a motif he’d famously used for the wallpaper at the Fountain Coffee Room in the Beverly Hills Hotel—which was meant for the Botany Building’s lobby.
Source: Metropolis Magazine

Rustic pink motif Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Colors like soft, damask pink can be incorporated in your modern design while keeping things in a minimal mindset.
Source: House Digest

Hollow—and therefore light—the Gaar collection consists of a distinctive bow-motif armchair and a side table, both in stitched leather and made entirely by hand in by artisans incorporating traditional methods of craft in Lebanon.
Source: Interior Design

He has drawn attention to Russia's history of political repression as a motif in his art.
Source: Reuters

Photo: Alexander D’HietA bespoke carpet in a lemon motif wraps a dining area.
Source: Architectural Digest

As such, it has a fantasy motif that stands in contrast to the sci-fi aesthetic of the main series titles.
Source: Game Revolution

As scholar Mechthild Fend writes in the catalog, “the sheer amount of female curls he drew over his lifetime suggests that he was fascinated by the motif as much as he enjoyed assembling little swirls in pen and ink.
Source: Vogue

Lene Bødker combined the classical motif of a human torso with nature in her sculptures, which are featured in the Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project 2022 collaboration.
Source: Dezeen

But Beyond mixes a technologically focused world with a consistent motif of disturbing body horror that few other series can rival (a live-action version has been the stuff of rumors for over 20 years now, with no one pulling the trigger).
Source: Vulture

The film’s opening title sequence features a mischievous, percussive motif which returns during the soundtrack’s smash hit, “College Pappala.
Source: IndieWire

The spectacular feast began with the title track from the band’s fifth album Fear Inoculum, as the quartet performed behind a translucent curtain as if they were entrapped in a cocoon, a motif that would return later in the show when a gigantic fly head filled the backdrop screen.
Source: The Upcoming

Heather Christian wrote about that motif we’ve all heard about humanity being only the last few minutes of the long history of the Earth, and she says, No, no, no, we’re the middle ten minutes of some great, long, developing season.
Source: The New Yorker

A recurring thread in Flanagan’s outline for the season is that nearly every frightening image or motif introduced in the first season has a bittersweet and heartfelt story behind it.
Source: Polygon

 He also employs a recurring visual motif, where he starts close up on a subject from an overhead angle, and then slowly zooms out to reveal them as a speck against a wider landscape.
Source: Indie Film Hustle

Iceland is leading the way in sustainability thanks to the geothermal energy flowing beneath its frozen surface, so it was fitting that social consciousness formed an offbeat motif of the ceremony.
Source: IndieWire

AdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyIterations of the bracelet that coils itself around the wearer’s wrist have turned the popular motif into the Italian jewelry house’s best seller.
Source: The New York Times

Dryden painted in glaze on some of his son's thrown pots; his favorite motif was his signature cartoon fish.
Source: Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Their original contributions — which include both the simmering synth-driven theme song and the plucky, ultra creepy “Upside Down” motif — have been a factor in setting Stranger Things apart from its sci-fi horror predecessors, and have established the show as an extraordinary music-for-film tastemaker.
Source: Billboard

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