Word: motif
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Again the animal motif is seen in the bronze censer surmounted by three lions, which in spirit resemble the Babylonian rather than the Assyrian. Though this piece is not of the same importance artistically as those already mentioned, still as an example of a decorated house-hold utensil it is not without interest...
...iconographers, that they designed. Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross. Above its crossbar is the hand of the Father and the dove of the Holy Spirit and, carved small, the cruciform Son. However, the nave door of the chapel portrays the Nativity, without using the motif of Virgin & Child...
...passion the Knight of the Lake invaded the bed of Queen Guinevere. Followed a pallid flashback to Elaine floating on her barge, dead for love. The mood became reminiscent: the love-blighted lily of Astolat guarding the wayward knight's shield in a tower, pining away. The barge motif was again heard. Betrayed, undone, Queen & lover fled Camelot, Guinevere to Amesbury nunnery and the veil, Launcelot to his castle. Final chapter of the symphony was Launcelot, ruled by grief and pain, moving gloomily among the lily pads of his homeland...
...flour counter of the nation's chief grocery store, the new building is decorated throughout with a grain motif by Architects John Auger Holabird and John Wellborn Root. The entrance grill bristles with fuzzy sheaves and kernels, grain garnishes the elevator doors, flanking the clock outside stand a wheat-raising Egyptian and a corn-fed Amerindian. Ripe wheat heads were thrust into the hands of visitors on the opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby...
With the skill of a great composer, the authoress establishes her main theme upon the plan of a symphony. The environment and teachings of the main character Diony Hall form the motif recurrent throughout. Behind the sudden death and vivid reality of the frontier life in Kentuck runs strands of memories from his days in Virginia. Such repetition of familiar ideas is helpful in conveying to the reader the longings of the pioneer woman's soul. The prose is melodiously in keeping with symphonic structure, possessing a meaty sensuousness seldom encounted in modern authors and rising at points to poetry...