Amid the drums of war Iran, too, has been sounding a quieter leitmotif of compromise.
The giant sucking sound emanating from the South and West, another leitmotif of American demographics, continues unmuffled.
Which, of course, is another battle entirely - and one which is the leitmotif of this parliament.
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Gone, for the moment at least, is "surrender" - the leitmotif, if not the stated purpose, of Jim Baker's Iraq Study Group.
The leitmotif is that U.S. unilateralism is dead, long live multilateralism.
John Kerry has made his service in Vietnam the leitmotif of the campaign, in a conscious effort to obscure other behavior that might disqualify him.
As befits a project overseen by bureaucrats in Brussels, the search for an overarching Grid standard for many different science projects has become a leitmotif.
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The call for new humanism was a leitmotif throughout the discussion.
Carrying on the Zen leitmotif, the organic cocktail list includes a Detox Margarita mixed with agave nectar and a Desert Rose Cosmopolitan, enhanced with prickly pear.
The jobs-jobs-jobs leitmotif gave way, at least for a time, to a new theme: the White House is no place for on-the-job-training about the nation's defense.
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But in many other places, too, Muslim grievance has been yoked to a broader anti-capitalist or anti-globalist movement whose leitmotif is loathing of the Bush administration and all its works.
Regrettably, the loss of four of our countrymen that fateful night and the cover-up that followed will come to be seen by history as simply the leitmotif of a Commander-in-Chief whose record is a virtually unmitigated disaster for the United States.
Unfortunately, as grievous as the damage Mr. Hanssen might have done appears to be, even it could pale by comparison with the cumulative effects of eight years of malign neglect towards personnel, information and physical security that was the leitmotif of the Clinton-Gore Administration.
Such is the leitmotif that courses through the tale, echoing worries from earlier Anderson films: a sharp sense of orphanhood, affecting young and old alike, and redeemed only by the chance to belong to a choir, to a clan, or to the heart of a fellow-loner.
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