The phrase "a brilliant variation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particularly clever or impressive change or adaptation of something, often in creative or artistic contexts.
Example: "The artist's latest work is a brilliant variation on the classic theme of love, showcasing new perspectives and emotions."
Alternatives: "an excellent adaptation" or "a remarkable twist".
To fill the news vacuum it enforces on Enron and the war alike, the administration has come up with a brilliant variation on the defunct Office of Strategic Influence: creating a full-service line of infotainment.
To his revolutionary solutions for site problems, for which he employed a brilliant variation on the oval, Borromini added a facade in 1667, the year he died, which responded to the waves of motion generated by the spatially complex interior.
The literal-minded will call the movie derivative; I think of it as a grateful homage, a brilliant contemporary variation.
Just to get the obvious out of the way: Woody Allen, in his startling new movie, "Blue Jasmine," has adopted the basic framework of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire". The literal-minded will call the movie derivative; I think of it as a grateful homage, a brilliant contemporary variation.
Schubert's ruminative, moody Sonata in G (D. 484) and Brahms's brilliant Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Book I, are also on the program.
The video's seamlessly morphing Mr. Jones was replaced by the flinty live observer of society, who wove often brilliant variations on a theme through the rest of the evening.
Also today, Dohnanyi's brilliant Variations on a Nursery Theme - namely, Twinkle, twinkle little star.
A Collection of Favorite Melodies With Brilliant Variations.
"They were unfortunate in some respects with some of the earlier dismissals, Angus Robson and Ned Eckersley both unable to keep out deliveries that kept markedly low, but once the Worcestershire seamers had taken the first four wickets, the Leicestershire middle and lower order did not have a clue how to cope with the brilliant variations of Saeed Ajmal.
A Song. Dear Mother, I've Come Home to Die, With Brilliant Variations for the Piano.
In 1826 he also published Odes et ballades, an enlarged edition of his previously printed verse, the latest of these poems being brilliant variations on the fashionable Romantic modes of mirth and terror.
