Sentence examples for lively variations from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ivankovich is also auctioning chairs and mirrors (estimated between $400 and $1,500) showing Nutting's occasional lively variations.

The two are passably lively variations on familiar types: she's an energetic egghead sitting at the head of the class; he's a jokester snoozing in the back row.

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ABC's "Wonderful World of Disney" presents "Princess of Thieves," a lively variation on the Robin Hood legend that invents a daughter for the robber-prince of Sherwood Forest.

Mrs. Adams's first quilt is a lively variation on the pineapple design, with stylized fruit and flowers in vivid green-and-yellow applique on a white ground.

Export: Opus Jazz" — a period piece reminiscent of "West Side Story," but without the story — is performed alongside Peter Martins's swoony but overlong "Morgen" and Balanchine's lively "Raymonda Variations," set to music by Glazunov.

The lively work, in theme and variations form, alternated between Baroque and Classical allusions and jazzy interludes of increasing energy played with panache by Ms. McDermott.

Mr. Schwarz closed the first half of the program with Tchaikovsky's "Mozartiana" (Op. 61), a suite of Romantic glosses on Mozart works, including a lovely orchestration of the "Ave verum corpus" and a lively recasting of Mozart's variations on a theme by Gluck.

Repetition and variation create a lively visual interplay in these large, complex compositions.

This, of course, is a variation on familiar Lively themes, reminding us of her preoccupation with the ways the past molds or fails to mold the present; the role that chance (from a wartime bomb to a fortuitous meeting on an airplane) plays in people's lives; the haphazard might-have-beens that follow an impulsive choice made long ago.

Mr. Wispelwey's contribution was a lively, beautifully focused rendering of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme.