motifs in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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motifs in the PONS Dictionary

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The combination of force with specious and spurious legalistic justification is one of the book's primary motifs.
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The patterns are constantly changing, with new motifs and colors are expanding, but retain the basic form of the specific nature of the landscape.
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Classical orders and candelabra motifs ("a candelieri") combined freely into symmetrical wholes.
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Motifs do not allow us to predict the biological functions: they are found in proteins and enzymes with dissimilar functions.
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Many design motifs may have ethnic, ritual or symbolic meaning or have been developed for export trade.
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The council chamber occupies two floors and is lavishly decorated with pilasters and sgraffito with motifs of drapery alternating with the city coat-of-arms.
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Manhattan temple design motifs include living waters, beehives, olives and olive trees, grapevines, starbursts, and the Statue of Liberty.
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She looked warrior-like in a knee-length souvenir bomber jacket which had cutesy motifs.
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These decorative elements usually consisted of geometrical patterns and stylised plant motifs, but could include human or animal figures.
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These became a new focus for architects, who used the visual expression of large elements combined with industrial motifs.
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