Sentence examples for elaborate variation from inspiring English sources

Beethoven's last piano sonatas are fascinating in part because the structure is that of theme and enormously elaborate variation; and Beethoven's variations are so fertile, so ingenious, so chromatic that they seem potentially infinite, a statement of limitlessness.

Then they trained each in a complicated memory task, an elaborate variation on Concentration, the child's card game, in which they memorized simultaneously presented auditory and visual stimuli that they had to recall later.

He is in the clubhouse of a secret society of high-stakes gamblers who bet on an elaborate variation of Russian roulette, in which numbered players stand in a circle with loaded guns pointed at their neighbors' heads and shoot on command.

A more elaborate variation is to station a permanent array that is wired to the mainland along known hurricane paths.

4-PLA, a more elaborate variation of solid-phase PLA, is another choice [ 54].

"Goldmember" flourishes new, more elaborate variations on old jokes.

The jolly little themes are put through wildly elaborate variations.

And he brought magisterial restraint to the second movement, a chordal theme with increasingly elaborate variations.

His fingerwork in the Schubert impromptu, a set of elaborate variations on a simple theme, had great fluidity.

During the past four-plus decades of football, since a Giants receiver slammed the ball to the turf and invented the end-zone spike, the touchdown celebration has been subject to countless fads and elaborate variations.

Like Chuck Jones, and, further back, like Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Park is unafraid of the formulaic — of bops on the head, of the unattainable beloved, of gadgetry gone awry — because he sees what beauty there can be in minor, elaborate variations on a basic theme.