1.   Figure sculpture was not permitted and motifs were chiefly in plant and geometrical form.

2.   And his strangling motif is an unnecessary and heavy-handed foreshadowing of the denouement.

3.   Animal and insect motifs are to be seen everywhere in this show.

4.   Animal motifs are at home in the garden.

5.   At Galeries Layette, the motif is optical illusion.

6.   A chicken motif is best suited to casual rooms the bathroom, laundry or family room, kitchen or breakfast room.

7.   A recurrent visual motif is the eerie nighttime reflection of rippling water on polished steel and marble surfaces.

8.   African motifs may have been hot on European runways this year, but Western designers reach mostly to faraway Kenya and French West Africa for themes.

9.   But the predominant motif was very Erin Brockovich.

10.   Cars were slowed by the presence of pedicabs, traffic patterns were puzzling, and the overwhelming motif was concrete.