Sentence examples for surprising variation from inspiring English sources

The show was an array of 23 plastic constructions decorated with an assortment of carefully painted geometrical designs and arranged so that each piece played a surprising variation on the basic moire phenomenon.

In the past couple of weeks, as the Republican Party has found itsel struggling yet again with the issue of abortion, a surprising variation has been playing out: a Buchanan is at the center of the controversy, but it isn't Pat.

In his Nobel acceptance speech, Seamus Heaney said that he prized the sort of poem that provides not just "a surprising variation played upon the world," but "a retuning of the world itself" — delivering a visceral surprise, "like the impatient thump which unexpectedly restores the picture to the television set, or the electric shock which sets the fibrillating heart back to its proper rhythm".

There was evidence for extensive and surprising variation in expression of Wnt11 and Etv5, both downstream targets of activated RET.

The surprising variation in the number of Hox clusters and the genomic architecture within vertebrate lineages, especially within the ray-finned fish, reflects a history of duplications and subsequent lineage-specific gene loss.

We note surprising variation in the chromosomal aberration patterns between the four different MCF7 subcultures (illustrated in Figure 1 ).

Again, limitation is an aid to invention, as surprising variations emerge from unpromising visual starter material.

Veterans of the New York Film Festival (Sept . 25-Oct 11) return with bold and surprising variations on their longstanding political themes.

I wondered what kinds of surprising variations I might find, and whom I might meet along the way.

Owner Aldo Trabalza digs deep into Roman tradition yet manages to concoct surprising variations on the theme.

Dall'Aquila's strength was in wresting imaginative and often surprising variations from fairly simple themes.