Sentence examples for repeated variations on from inspiring English sources

The myths didn't give me narrative satisfaction like fairy stories, which seem to me to be stories about stories, to give their reader the pleasure of recognising endlessly repeated variations on the same narrative patterns.

I am coming to suspect that the internet will be to my generation of journalists, and to any younger ones, what alcohol was to our predecessors': a destroyer first of thought and then of productivity, destructive both of the capacity to reflect, and to react, blurring everything into a haze of talk and endlessly repeated variations on the same experience.

I'd forgotten this until lately when I've heard repeated variations on the theme of: "When you get on the bus, walk down the street - you don't hear any English being spoken".

Several times, in his addresses, Bryan repeated variations on lines he had spoken in Congress in December 1894, decrying the gold standard, "I will not help to crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

He had recorded a long poem about his sister that repeated variations on a single line — "Emily likes the TV, because she watches the TV, because she likes it" — in what Wilson sensed were highly organized sequences.

- Separate the speculations about the selective pressures that might have driven the original nontemplated peptide synthesis function into one section, rather than repeating variations on this material in several places.

It's a thought that clouds the mind during This Is PiL's opening title track, a lumbering riff over which Lydon belches, screams, does funny voices and belligerently repeats variations on��the title.

(Let's face it, it's not easy repeating variations on the lines "I'm a seagull! No, I'm an actress!") In "Through a Glass Darkly," her character, Karin, has recently been released from the hospital, where she was treated for delusions, and she has joined her husband, father and brother on an isolated island to recuperate.

Throughout the documentary he repeats variations on "I'm an old man," "I'm a pensioner" and "I'm a retired old geezer".

Trump's statement is beneath contempt, but that won't keep him from repeating variations on that theme in the months to come.

Host Clive Bull was less convinced by his "let's just knock it on the head" approach, repeating variations on the words "it's not that simple, though" until big Trev could take no more and... declared war on Ireland.