With the exceptions of the hard-working supporting cast — notably J. K. Simmons as a C.I.A. bigwig and the equally reliable and welcome Richard Jenkins as a lovelorn gym manager — the characters have been conceived as variations on self-deluded boobishness.
In reflecting on our findings we touch upon the issue of how students conceive of variation and distribution, in terms of whether the former is seen as generating the latter or vice versa.
Any idea that Jimmy has been conceived as a variation on the Michael Corleone/Tony Soprano brand of thoughtfully troubled murderers is firmly laid to rest in a gruesome scene that is as nauseating to watch as it is effectively blunt and intellectually pointed.
The L'Estaque landscapes were not so much traditionally conceived landscapes as variations on the idea of landscape.
Furthermore, the concept of random genetic mutation as the source of variation was conceived at a time in which our understanding of a genome was simplistic.
Despite views that present the character's Batgirl persona as a symbol of female empowerment, a long-held criticism is that she was originally conceived as an uninspired variation of Batman "rather than standing alone as leader, such as Wonder Woman" who had no pre-existing male counterpart.
If, however, we take into account Bolzano's practice, we notice that Bolzano never varies logical and mathematical ideas other than ideas of numbers and quantities, although he never forbids it (one could for instance conceive of the variation of propositional connectives).
(The show was conceived as a jump-cut variation on "An American Family," the 1973 PBS documentary series that recorded 12 weeks in the life of the Loud family).
Gould (1990) expressed concern that an extinction-driven trend may be hard to accept because the loss of species through extinction might be conceived as merely whittling down variation among species.
AS and RO conceived the idea of exploring melon variation using custom-designed microarrays.
