Sentence examples for difficult variation from inspiring English sources

(What better way to procrastinate when facing a deadline?) We débuted a crossword puzzle once before, two decades back a so-called cryptic crossword, a fiendishly difficult variation more commonly played in the U.K. than in the U.S. Our cryptic had an unusual shape: we tucked it into a single column, a third of a page, in the magazine.

This exercise provides a medium-intensity workout, and is a more difficult variation of the classic crunch.

"It's one of the most difficult variations," she said.

He also plays Mozart's Sonata, K. 332, and Brahms's exhilarating, and very difficult, Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel.

Finding that few others tackled Paganini and similarly challenging material – Wieniawski's fiendishly difficult variations on the Russian national anthem, for instance – he learned and performed about 60 concertos.

Among the performers that night were two former students, the noted soloist Mira Wang and Na Sun, a member of the New York Philharmonic, who played devilishly difficult variations on "Happy Birthday" by the composer Bruce Dukov.

And then they embark on extraordinarily difficult variations, combining filigree point work, unusual petit allegro jumps, quirky arm gestures and a tough mix of dance tempos (quick, high leaps into grounded, slow extensions).

Liszt was a notorious lady's man, and the piano piece, with its fiendishly difficult variations on "Là ci darem la mano," the courting song of Mozart's lothario Don Giovanni, seems less like a reminiscence than a direct challenge from one womanizer to another.

Less and more difficult variations are described for every activity and can be applied according to the patient's cognitive ability.

Investigating the clinical impact of such cardiac impairment on a longer term is difficult; variations of lactate serum levels after salbutamol administration could be indicative of impaired peripheral perfusion.

Once you've mastered the full plank with perfect form, challenge yourself with more difficult variations.