The film includes a number of puns and visual metaphors that demonstrate a running motif of crisscross, double-crossing, and crossing one's double.

This motif is evidenced in the era of " paranoid soul " such as " Smiling Faces Sometimes " ( released by The Temptations in April 1971, and made a hit by The Undisputed Truth in July 1971 ), " I'll Take You There " ( The Staples Singers, 1972 ), " Don't Call Me Brother " ( The O ' Jays, 1973 ), " Back Stabbers " ( The O ' Jays ), and " You Caught Me Smilin ( Sly and the Family Stone, 1971 ).

On the contrary, the soul of a noble warrior suffering in hell or as a lingering spirit is a common motif in Japanese art and literature.

The motif of Faust's love for Helen of Troy goes back to the sources of the Faustian legend.

Now Rangoni comes to the point, and we hear, for the first time, a long, downward chromatic scale that will become the characteristic motif of his sinister power.

168, No. 1 ( I: Moderato cantabile ), provides the title and a motif for the French novella Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras.

Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

Mucalinda, the nāga king who shielded Gautama Buddha | Buddha as he sat in meditation, was a favorite motif for Cambodian Buddhist sculptors from the 11th century.

The flag is a common motif on decals for car windows, and clothing ornaments such as badges and lapel pins.

In most GTPases, the specificity for the base guanine is imparted by the base-recognition motif, which has the consensus sequence KXD.

Part of the war motif could be a metaphor for the poet in a competitive struggle with the reader in order to push his own vision and ideas upon his audience.

The film retains the classical motif, portraying, for most of its duration, a young woman embracing a swan.

The DCB6 tooltip motif, initially described by Merkle and Freitas at a Foresight Conference in 2002, was the first complete tooltip ever proposed for diamond mechanosynthesis and remains the only tooltip motif that has been successfully simulated for its intended function on a full 200-atom diamond surface.

Angelo Casanova, Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Florence, finds in Prometheus a reflection of an ancient, pre-Hesiodic trickster-figure, who served to account for the mixture of good and bad in human life, and whose fashioning of men from clay was an Eastern motif familiar in Enuma Elish ; as an opponent of Zeus he was an analogue of the Titans, and like them was punished.

The first single from Spellbound was the ballad, " Rush, Rush ," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five consecutive weeks, and was noted for its music video and Rebel Without a Cause motif featuring Keanu Reeves in the James Dean role.

The Ni-hook contains the motif His-Cys-X-X-Pro-Cys-Gly-X-Tyr ; it provides most of the interactions critical for metal binding and catalysis and is, therefore, a likely diagnostic of NiSODs.

For example, the star motif featured predominantly throughout the movie started with the film's production designer Richard Heinrichs ' design for the bowling alley.

The original ZX Spectrum is remembered for its rubber keyboard, diminutive size and distinctive rainbow motif.

Drawing from the biblical motif on the poor, Gutierrez asserts that God is revealed as having a preference for those people who are “ insignificant ,” “ marginalized ,” “ unimportant ,” “ needy ,” despised ” and “ defenseless.

Wagner described two of the songs-" Im Treibhaus " and " Träume "-as " Studies for Tristan und Isolde ": " Träume " uses a motif that forms the love duet in Act 2 of " Tristan ", while " Im Treibhaus " introduces a theme that later became the Prelude to Act 3.

Up to eight of the themes used in Turandot appear to be based on traditional Chinese music and anthems, and the melody of a Chinese song named " Mò Li Hūa ( 茉莉花 )", or " Jasmine ", is included as a motif for the princess.

The song provides a major organizational motif for the novel.

The dance of Shiva in Tillai, the traditional name for Chidambaram, forms the motif for all the depictions of Shiva as Nataraja.

" Keeping with the album's family motif, " Father Daughter Harmony " was a moving duet with daughter Alicia while " The 50th " features Keaggy's guitar playing over a reel-to-reel recording of his grandparents ' 50th wedding anniversary in 1949.

After trying to play the drums and saxophone, Vaughan received his first guitar for his seventh birthday: a plastic toy from Sears with a western motif.

In keeping with his early rock and roll interests, Bolan began bringing amplified guitar lines into the duo's music, buying a white Fender Stratocaster decorated with a Paisley teardrop motif.

" Your Honor, Lady Luck ", sung by Vereschagin accompanied by a guitar, is a musical motif in the film.

The distinctive slide guitar motif is a recurring theme on The KLF's 1990 album Chill Out.

The ending also reprises the arpeggiated guitar motif from the end of that track, similar to the figure featured prominently in the George Harrison written tracks " Here Comes the Sun " and " Badge " ( co-written by Harrison and Eric Clapton ).

In addition to this striking guitar motif, the song is also highlighted by Chris Hillman's driving and hypnotic bass line, Crosby's chunky rhythm guitar playing and the band's ethereal harmonies.

It retained the power of life and death ; in fact, the gorgon, an ancient symbol of that power, appears as a motif in Etruscan decoration.

Lots of Dahomean and other Western African culture art have a vertical snake motif ; this is thought to represent the power of " God " ( Mawu-Lisa or some other ) being transferred to humanity.

The contestants ' sexy banter and its " flower power "- motif studio set were a revolution for the game show genre.

In a common motif, a child, whether newborn or not yet conceived, is prophesied to cause something that those in power do not want to happen.

" The recurring spiral motif has always been associated with " maternal power " and " feminine prestige " which is the essence of Miss Earth.

Using the garden motif, Burnett explores the healing power inherent in living things.

However his earliest issues are from Camulodunum, indicating that he took power there first, and some have a palm or laurel wreath design, a motif borrowed from the Romans indicating a military victory.

The duality motif extends to the Dragons of Heaven and Earth, two groups of warriors, both alike in power, led to battle by opposite sisters.

Having banished Satan through the power of the Only Begotten ( a motif linked to baptism ), Moses is “ filled with the Holy Ghost .” Continuing to press forward, he “ calls upon the name of God ” in sacred prayer, and is answered by a voice from behind the veil enumerating specific blessings.

The political possibilities for the uncanny visual motif are relevant to discussions of Hatoum ’ s work, as the disruption achieved at a psychological level can have broad implications involving power, politics, or individual concerns.

Kruger juxtaposes her imagery and text containing criticism of sexism and the circulation of power within cultures is a recurring motif in Kruger's work.

It's not based around a chess motif, as the original Archon is, but maintains the concept of " good vs. evil ", one on one combat, magic and power points.