He repeated himself several times and later used the phrase as the central motif of a speech to rehabilitate his premiership.

Yet we get too much of the central motif of the embattled veteran in his tiny cardboard dugout, and not enough about how his consciousness can be altered.

The central motif of birds gives the author the opportunity to explore a range of themes.

The flowers he picked were arranged in vases to become the central motif of several still lifes.

That same desolate desert landscape became a central motif in many works of art until the 1980s.