Sentence examples for pleasant variation from inspiring English sources

Little bites of duck and mango are encased in crisp, slender cylinders ($4.50), offering a pleasant variation on the spring roll theme.

In a pleasant variation on the usual crumbs-garlic-herb mixture, the stuffing for artichoke included crumbled sausage, and excellent marechiara sauce added even more richness.

The crust on the berry crostata was soggy and tough, but the cannoli was crisp and delicate, and the tiramisu a pleasant variation on the traditional.

So when an eminent evolutionary biologist breaks from the pack to address religious folk in warm and respectful terms, this is what's known in the field as "punctuated" change — a sudden and, in this case, pleasant variation.

It seemed to be a pleasant variation to everyday tasks at the PHCC and gave much-needed freedom to decide their own time schedule.

With good vermouth and good gin there is no limit to pleasant variations.

( Holden) 'DISTURBIA' (PG-13, 104 minutes) A pleasant, scary, well-directed variation on the killer-next-door theme, with the engaging Shia LeBeouf as Kale, a young man who turns house arrest into an occasion for voyeurism and crime-fighting.

This is what changes the tone of each bamboo, so you can experiment here until you obtain a pleasant sound with the tonal variation you desire.

There are a seemingly infinite number of slight chemical variations, which can produce variations in effect — some pleasant and some unpleasant, depending on the person, substance, and situation — all of which are meticulously recorded in Shulgin's lab notebooks.

Another couple made a pleasant impression in George Balanchine's festive "Theme and Variations," to Tchaikovsky.

Not only do most of her novels take place in the by now recognizable environs of a pleasant, middle-class Baltimore, but they also tend to work inventive variations on a slender handful of themes and character types.