His tour demeanor seems as authoritative and outspoken as ever, as if capitalist crowds were a mere variation on the receptive Politburos of yore.

Another glaring example is /necessary/, which to some is four syllables but others it is three; hence, they are mere variations.

Eliot set out such scenes shortly because they are in truth boring, mere variations of emotional sterility.

Here, individual performances go further than being mere variations; not only is each a one-off event, but its status as such is made perceptible.

This sharp break from Diabelli announces that the series will not consist of mere decorative variations on a theme.

Her licking was beyond the formulaic or mere technical variations, and light years beyond the simple "polishing up" of the standard female genre.

All of these may be mere variations on the basics of aerobic exercise, strength work and stretching, but never mind.

Several papers argue that ticking time bomb scenario is a mere variation of the trolley problem.

Minimalism and Dodecaphonism are, in fact, mere variations on the same ideology of music: the false ideology of pitch-class egalitarianism.

Of course even these unusual ships were mere variations of ancient Library designs.