Sentence examples for spectacular variation from inspiring English sources

A spectacular variation occurred when Schwartz opened one heart as North and East bid three spades.

Saving the big number for the climax, like any good musical director, Mr. Yuen finishes up with a spectacular variation on the traditional kung fu pole fight, in which the combatants balance on tall, flaming bamboo poles, jumping about with exhilarating abandon as they try to knock their enemies into the fire pit below.

The neurocranium and the mandible showed the most spectacular variation.

Christidis and Schodde [ 51] postulated that the evolution of spectacular variation in male plumages in birds-of-paradise could be explained by female sexual selection for novel partners (but see [ 52, 53]).

Only two years earlier, in another spectacular trial, a variation on this defense had helped acquit a teenage Bronx beauty named Josephine Terranova for the stabbing of her abusive uncle.

Land plants have evolved a spectacular range of variation in life histories.

In "Celestial Landscape," by Darrell Grand Moultrie, a vaguely liturgical, insistently pounding score by Karl Jenkins set eight dancers in shimmering body tights leaping, falling and catching one another to spectacular effect but little variation.

The color patterns on butterfly wings are a spectacular example of morphological variation, and have been established as an important system in the study of evolution and development [ 9- 11].

Third, cryptic variation and often spectacular levels of undetected taxonomic diversity have been frequently reported [e.g. 18], [19], [20].

Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) are among the most spectacular examples of discontinuous phenotypic variation within species (reviewed in: Gross 1996; Brockmann 2001; Shuster and Wade 2003; Oliveira et al. 2008).

By contrast, the P. autumnale complex exhibits a spectacular array of genomic and chromosomal variation, unparalleled in any other flowering plant, with multiple basic chromosome numbers, a huge range of levels and complexity of polyploidy, and a spectacular array of chromosomal polymorphisms (including supernumerary segments, B-chromosomes, and inversions).