Sentence examples for work variations on from inspiring English sources

Take a theme, then work variations on it.

In each work variations on "preis" appear in fat dark letters across cheerfully all-purpose abstract fields.

Joined by Claude Hobson, he will play the piano work "Variations on a Theme" for four hands by Schumann.

$23. John Updike's last two efforts to work variations on classic stories were low points in a dazzling career: "Brazil" (1994) turned the legend of Tristan and Isolde into a cartoonish soap opera, full of sexual and racial stereotypes; and "S" (1988) turned Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" into a sour, cliche-ridden sendup of the women's movement.

Unlike the Pinkcourtesyphone set, Mendez played records that sounded a lot like his own work: variations on the goth sensibility, old drum machines, older synthesizers, and robotic vocals made robotic with only the affect afforded by the singer's acting capabilities.

It is one of those amazingly inclusive books that seems to embrace everything the author knows, while his new collection of short stories, "This Is How You Lose Her," is a miniaturist performance — a modest, musically structured riff that works variations on one main subject: a young Dominican man's womanizing and its emotional fallout.

I particularly admire the way he works variations on a melody.

"The Egyptologist" worked variations on old Hollywood mummy movies and H. Rider Haggard stories.

On larger canvases and in muted colors, Ms. Voorhees works variations on a vocabulary of semisculptural botanical forms (Johnson).

On larger canvases and in muted colors, Ms. Voorhees works variations on a vocabulary of semi-sculptural botanical forms (Johnson).

There was undeniably an Alice Underground feeling about a collection that worked variations on Ms. Westwood's greatest hits.