There were bowlers who could not manage basic line and length, incapable of moving the ball consistently and going through variations as if by rote.
Green tea and oolong acquire their qualities through variations in the crucial fermentation stage.
Climates can change very slowly through continental drift and much more rapidly through variations in such factors as solar radiation.
Communities, each comprising a village and its hamlets, maintain their unique identities through variations in clothing styles, dialects, and religious celebrations.
For instance, Rembrandt knew the ostensible truth of local color to be less important than getting its changing tones as it passed through variations of light and shade; that way, color itself became organic.
In the book, Lewis sets out to explain literary elements such as metaphor and suspension of disbelief through variations on the classic nursery rhyme, "Three blind mice ran after the farmer's wife.
Dr. Tankovich's latest patent elaborates on the original carbon cream and also identifies how the laser can be used -- through variations in the duration and timing of its pulses -- to retard the growth of new hair.
Coleman rips a short, melodic phrase from his saxophone and the others jump on it, propelling the music forward through variations on the theme, never sacrificing inspiration for the sake of a neat resolution.
People living in the Ganges Delta, where cholera is an ancient, endemic and often lethal disease, have adapted genetically to the scourge through variations in about 300 genes, say researchers who have scanned their genomes for the fingerprints of evolution.
Perhaps it is an accident of circumstance — the nature of the commissions, for example — but the devotion to classical models that drives his early music gives way to more unabashedly picturesque writing in the Quartet No. 3, inspired by Carel Willink paintings, and in "Musica di Catasto," in which a theme from Tchaikovsky's "1812" flits through variations on a spikier theme.
