1.   In a medical textbook, the choice between clavicle and collar-bone can justly be called a matter of stylistic variation.

2.   Looking at the might-have-beens of stylistic variation is a way of making the elusive quality of good writing open to inspection.

3.   Each has a set of rhythms and patterns, a grammar, and leaves room for stylistic variation.

4.   He is represented here by six pictures of almost unbelievable stylistic variation, distinguished by a tremendous confidence.

5.   Plotting the major periods of Ethiopian Christian art, the objects exhibit subtle yet telling stylistic variations in the midst of considerable consistency.