In a developing theme-and-variation essay on modern tailoring, the two men conjured up an image of "Mad Men" suavity with matinee-idol suits, butterfly bow ties, Savile Row checks and spectator shoes.
Ms. Joseph's suggestion is a variation on essay prompts by Stanford and Harvard universities in recent years, which suggested writing a letter to a future roommate.
Joan Acocella characterizes my introductory essay, "Variation and Change in Our Living Language," in the 2011 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, as "prescriptivism — no doubt about it" ("The English Wars," May 14th).
(a variation of this essay appeared International Policy Digest, October 29, 2015).
A variation of this essay first appeared on IceScreamMama.
Gregory Corso summarises the slippery nature of the meaning of Beat in his essay Variations on a Generation.
To follow up this lesson, I assign my students the task of researching and writing an essay describing replication, variation, and selection in any species they choose.
A virtuoso color performance, the painting is an essay on the variations of white perceptible in the reflection of sun on crisp new snow.
Variations on a theme are an essay in musical alchemy.
For example, Brown and Columbia ask variations of the "Why This College?" essay.
Kenneth M. Pollack, a former C.I.A. expert who argued for military action against Iraq before the war, outlines a variation of this thesis in a trenchant essay regarding the intelligence on Iraq in The Atlantic magazine and available at theatlantic.com.
