Mr. Murphy recently created a line of cocktails mixing vodka with low-calorie, sugar- and aspartame-free airforce Nutrisoda-brand sodas — each containing a day's dose of vitamins C, E, B6, and B12 — as a more health-conscious variation on the Red Bull and vodka.
His novels are self-conscious variations on a theme.
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Margaret Major, the violist, said: "Manny was one of those very, very rare violinists who is highly conscious of the variation within all kinds of music".
More than any novelist I can think of, Geoff Dyer is a cover artist — a writer who proceeds by conscious imitation and variation, reinventing earlier literary works the way the jazz musicians Lester Young and Oscar Peterson reinvented such standards as "Tea for Two" and "These Foolish Things".
By Jon Michaud May 15, 2009 More than any novelist I can think of, Geoff Dyer is a cover artist — a writer who proceeds by conscious imitation and variation, reinventing earlier literary works the way the jazz musicians Lester Young and Oscar Peterson reinvented such standards as "Tea for Two" and "These Foolish Things".
Putnam's photographs, taken with an 8 by 10 view camera, are starkly formalistic: the boxy, Art Deco theaters are largely shot head-on and centrally placed in the frame, making the viewer conscious of minute variations in detail and texture.
And the couple are supposedly trying to "split without divorcing," which sounds like a variation on "conscious uncoupling" and makes about as much sense.
Thus, researchers who use Fr as a way to compensate for size in comparisons at lower taxonomic levels (e.g. species and genera) must also be conscious of, and compensate for, variation in shape, a source of variation that is always present in such populations.
Obama was the central character in his letters, in a self-conscious way, with variations on the theme of his search for purpose and self-identity.
