So let's start with a variant of that.
(It is a further truth that anyone writing about Austen must begin with a variant of that sentence).
The dyke charge was "a politically motivated attack", it said, with a variant of what Jews call the "Livingstone formulation".
(Four years later, in his first duel with John Kerry, a charmless, impatient Bush seemed almost fatefully infected with a variant of Gore's earlier boorishness).
(His attack did Courbet the honor of bracketing him with Ingres, whom Baudelaire charged with a variant of the same offense).
A plan to bring in the carcasses of several hundred sheep that are believed to be infected with a variant of mad cow disease ran into significant local opposition.
In the mid-1960s he went to China, shook hands with Chairman Mao, and came back with a variant of the Mao suit, which became de rigueur among Tanzania's officials and aspiring politicians.
It was yeasty and sweet and, evidently, laden with bad bacteria: a week later, I came down with a variant of typhoid fever, the first case my family's doctor had ever seen.
In Interphone, men and women with a variant of brain cancer (called glioma) were asked to recall their level of exposure to cellphone radiation.
I wore a T-shirt inscribed with a variant of my father's old motto from his days in the Royal Air Force: "Through Adversity to the Stairs".
In addition, Commissioner O'Toole said Friday afternoon that she would meet with the department's tactical commanders and consider whether to stop using the pepper-spray weapon, which is a paintball-like gun that fires plastic balls filled with a variant of cayenne pepper.
