The score's formal layout - a theme with nine intricate variations and a rhapsodic finale - was lucidly presented.

One intricate variation is the four-in-one combination: two quadrants of the rugs depict sand paintings, and the other two have geometric motifs.

Thus a frisky loping solo for Mr. Gold was based on intricate variations on a few basic steps.

And steppin' is an intricate variation of cheerleading.

As always, his anxiety vanished with the first note, and he carried his audience with him through all the intricate variations of the old dance tune.

It was all a fuss about nothing, another example of the national genius for weaving intricate variations around the simplest event.

After a brief but expansive fanfare, Tchaikovsky quotes the folk song "The Crane", subjecting it to an increasingly intricate and colorful variations for orchestra.

Mr. Carter's dramas are often more intricate variations on similar themes.

Wickets is a simulation of Croquet on a game board, with a dice-and-pawn strategy that can have intricate variations.