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But this simple theme, elaborated through all the modulations of varied oratory, was one of which the Belfast populace was no more capable of becoming weary than is the music lover of tiring of a recurrent leitmotif in a Wagner opera. At last the ship moved off, and speech was no longer possible.
Mother Beckett dried her eyes with one of her dainty handkerchiefs which always smell like lavender and grass pinks her leitmotif in perfume. "You knew our Jim?" she exclaimed, choking back tears. "Why, then, perhaps you and Mary Miss O'Malley " What would have happened if she had finished her sentence I shall never know, for just then came a crash as if the house were falling.
"Mutual aid" is the burden of the pedagogistic refrain, for the leitmotif of all moralities, not excepting that of the school, is "to love one another."
It was in 1828, therefore, when the events occurred which he relates, and he allowed an interval of forty years to elapse ere making them public. The umbrella on the other hand is always cropping up. It pervades the volume like a Leitmotif.
Her beauty had that direct and almost aggressive quality that is like a challenge, and with sophisticated feminine art she had contrived that the dinner gown she chose for that evening should sound the keynote of her personality like a leitmotif in an opera. The costume was a creation of white satin, the folds caught here and there with strings of pearls.
In Wagner's operas, which I don't understand, perhaps, but which I love with thrills in my spine and that's a kind of understanding whenever a character comes on the stage he or she always is followed by a certain strain of music music that expresses character, and seems even to describe a person. Well, wallflower perfume might be your leitmotif. Can't you hear perfume? I can.
Healthy cells can grow fat on a diet of such germs, and, if we keep ourselves vigorous, clean, and well ventilated, we can practically defy the "cold" devil and all his works. Here is the leitmotif of the whole fascinating drama of infection and immunity. We can study only one phrasing here.
Just as you can seem to see music wonderful, changing colours. The wallflower scent's all around us now. It's you. But through it I imagine another perfume. It's here, too. It's been with me for months. Because I've got to feel it's her spirit, her leitmotif. The perfume of fresias. Do you know it?" "I thought maybe she liked it," mother said calmly. "What put that idea in your darling head?"
His leitmotif in the music-play has been 'See the Conquering Hero' up to now; one isn't sorry to see one's sex avenged. But one is sorry for Mary Fraithorn's boy." She indicated the Chaplain with a twirl of her eyeglasses. "She used to visit him with the Sisters when he was ill, and, of course, he has been bowled over.
I hate the 'bigness, too the kind of false, smart bigness that you mean. We'll have a little house she and you and I. For your room will be there, and you'll be in it whenever father'll spare you. But I'm running away in what I used to call my 'dreamobile! I haven't found her yet. That is, I found her once and lost her again. I'm looking for her now. Mother, do you know what a 'leitmotif' is?"
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