However, in this variation of the story, the banshee is simply a ghoul, as opposed to a sign of misfortune.

Written by Robert Riskin, it is one of the first of the " screwball comedies ", and with its release during the period of the Great Depression, critics considered it an escapist story and a variation of the " American Dream ".

Wanting to capitalize on the countries aviation craze, Fox immediately bought Hawks's original story for The Air Circus, a variation of the male friendship plot of A Girl in Every Port about two young pilots.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

A variation of this story holds that they were formed from the mingling of Medusa's blood, Pain and sea foam, implying that Poseidon had involvement in their making.

The story explains the confusion of tongues: variation in human language.

Jorge Luis Borges presents an interesting variation of the myth in a short story, " La Casa de Asterión " (" The House of Asterion ").

Panfilo tells this story, which can be considered a variation of VIII, 1.

In Eastern Europe the variation of the story ( having more in common with the Northern European rendition ) is called axe soup, with an axe being the catalyst.

In one variation of the story, Mars, god of war, seduces and impregnates her: in another, Amulius himself seduces her, and in yet another, Hercules.

A variation on the traditional impact story was provided by Jack McDevitt's 1999 novel Moonfall, in which a very large comet traveling at interstellar velocities collides with and partially destroys the Moon, fragments of which then collide with the Earth.

An important variation on the whodunit is the inverted detective story ( also referred to as a " howcatchem " or " howdunnit ") win which the guilty party and the crime are openly revealed to the reader / audience and the story follows the investigator's efforts to find out the truth while the criminal attempts to prevent it.

The story of Gelert is a variation on the well-worn " Faithful Hound " folk-tale motif, which lives on as an urban legend.

A theme does not belong to a specific story, but may be found with minor variation in many different stories.

: In 1904 Elgar told Dora Penny (“ Dorabella ”) that this variation is not really a portrait, but “ the story of something that happened ”.

To illustrate this variation in a small way, and to demonstrate that there is no one correct way to tell the story of Tāwhaki, two versions from different tribal groups are presented below.

A second variation of the story claims that the rights to a popular Kelly play were purchased from E. J. Cole's Bohemian Company, and members of the troup performed in the film.

In a review of the DVD critic Gary W. Tooze lauded Edward's direction and the acting, writing, " Blake Edwards's powerful adaptation of J. P. Miller's Playhouse 90 story, starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in career performances, remains a variation in his body of work largely devoted to comedy ... Lemmon is at his best and ditto for Remick in this harrowing tale of people consumed by their mutual addiction.

* In Vladimir Nabokov's short story, Signs and Symbols, initially published in 1948, the parents of a suicidal youth suffering from a variation of this disease, " Referential Mania ", decide to remove him from a hospital in order to keep a more watchful eye.

The story of The Tripods is a variation on post-apocalyptic literature.

Another variation on this story was told by the contemporary chronicler Ferretto of Vicenza, who applied the idea to a Neapolitan Templar brought before Clement V, whom he denounced for his injustice.

It constitutes a variation of the Pygmalion story.

* East by Edith Pattou, based on the story East of the Sun and West of the Moon a Norse variation.

* A variation of the story was incorporated into an episode of the ABC TV series Once Upon a Time entitled " Skin Deep " in which Beauty / Belle is played by Emilie de Ravin and the Beast is this series ' version of Rumpelstiltskin, as played by Robert Carlyle.

The `` push '' exercise of this Push-Pull Super-Set is the Bench Press done with elbows well pulled back and with a greater downward stretch of the pectorals not possible with the barbell variation.

There is a break in continuity just before the fourth variation in the `` Forellen '' movement, and I suspect that this is due to imperfect splicing between sides of the original Aj.

Every detail in his interpretation has been beautifully thought out, and of these I would especially cite the delicious laendler touch the pianist brings to the fifth variation ( an obvious indication that he is playing with Viennese musicians ), and the gossamer shading throughout.

The infrared emission could then be assumed to originate at the surface of the moon, while the radio emission originates at some depth beneath the surface, where the temperature variation due to solar radiation is reduced in amplitude and shifted in phase.

The variation in the 3-cm emission of the moon during a lunation is very much less than the variation in the 8.6-mm emission, as would be expected from the explanation of Piddington and Minnett ( 1949 ).

Even here there is room for some variation, for metal surfaces vary in smoothness, absorptive capacity, and chemical reactivity.

A reason for such wide variation in the pulmonary morphology is entirely lacking at present.

The meaning of this variation in distribution of the bronchial artery as found in the horse is not clear.

When irregularity and variation prevent summarizing, information is written in complete detail.

But in general the individual variation is a small thing added onto basic linguistic features of greater magnitude.

The drama in the theater and the concert in the hall both have a fixed time, but the time is fixed by the director and the players, the conductor and the instrumentalists, subject, therefore, to much variation, as record collectors well know.

The Drexel collection, called Composite, to be shown by Titche's offers a realistic approach to decorating, a mature modern that is a variation of many designs.

Another variation is that Apollo played his instrument ( the lyre ) upside down.

In statistics, analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) is a collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance in a particular variable is partitioned into components attributable to different sources of variation.

This is typical of the newer classifications, though there is some slight variation, and in particular the Torriceliaceae may be divided.

A variation of a White Russian made with skim milk is known as an Anna Kournikova.

The androecium contains of 5 stamens, but there is often variation in the functionality of the stamens even within a single inflorescence.

The primary disadvantage of analog signaling is that any system has noise – i. e., random unwanted variation.

There is the standard way to sign the word learn that seems to be used by most speakers of ASL in Canada, and there is also an Atlantic regional variation.

There is a variation among regions in the United States when it comes to which handshape speakers prefer to use.