| 单词 | elision |
| 例句 | This rather deliberate elision of Fermi’s role in neutron research was the prelude to a pitch for $2,250 “to increase the yield of neutron radiation tenfold or more.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The word in Greek means “turning away”, and hence “omission” or “elision”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Like the telling elision in the otherwise vérité documentary about Madonna, “Truth or Dare,” when the camera is invited everywhere and anywhere except her business meeting, Phair keeps the door closed on her creative life. Liz Phair Still Doesn’t Care What We Think 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Bachmann’s elisions, in a book about female desire and consciousness and loss of self, are intended: the elisions are brutal and internal; “Malina” is complete. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Those who’ve read Furukawa’s novel, which doesn’t seem to have been translated into English, may have no issue tracking the movie’s labyrinthine turns, its time shifts, storytelling elisions and fantastical flourishes. ‘Inu-oh’ Review: Dazzling Anime Meets Medieval Epic 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z We periodically hear metallic beeps, to indicate editing and elisions. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Even the elision of "on a" to "one" in the first line sharpens our sense of the bird's singularity and special-ness. Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z Viral movements always come with elisions and omissions, and this has been true of the #MeToo movement from the start. One Year of #MeToo: We Need a More Inclusive Language of Abuse and Victimhood 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Although the reasons for these elisions are understandable, they rob the film of the bite that a more honest record might have had. 2010-01-22T03:30:00Z But the magnetism of these books derives not from its mountain of facts but from its elisions — all those gaps in our knowledge and understanding. Hilary Mantel’s Triumphant New Novel Brings Thomas Cromwell Across the Finish Line 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The woman is Ruhaba Khan, a Pakistani law professor whose voice comes to us only in her emails — an intriguing elision not unlike the titular character’s from “Lolita.” Is It a Campus or a Powder Keg? In This Novel, It’s Both. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, he doesn’t illuminate how the myth relates to the documented bodysnatching from Black cemeteries by doctors, an elision which consigns warranted African-American fears to the realm of horror stories and folklore. When a Black Man’s Heart Was Transplanted Without Consent 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Over time, elision became neglect: Partial articulations of a world of peoples were conflated with the very toxic particularism they had been created to realistically combat. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z But we are forcing ourselves to look at these works simply as narrative films about complicated people; we understand there must be elisions and inventions. Popcast: Miles Davis and Chet Baker, Artists in Exile 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The cable phenomenon "The Jinx," a twisty tale of the alleged twisted acts of Robert Durst, presented itself as fact, even though, like many documentaries, it was rife with elisions and edits. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Bacon's aperçus are as hard to match in critical prose as are the paintings themselves, with their swerves and elisions, their smeary frustration of interpretations based glibly on "grim" subject matter. Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon by Jonathan Littell – review 2013-07-20T11:01:01Z But while Ms. Syman has amassed a lot of entertaining anecdotes about the history of yoga in this country, her overall narrative suffers from odd gaps and elisions. Books of The Times: Stefanie Syman?s Yoga History, ?The Subtle Body? 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z He riffs on shifting semantic variations, on the relation between art and artifice, illusion and elision, energy and entropy. Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z Gilroy’s elision of the art world with Hollywood leads to at least one substantial misrepresentation. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Much of the rest was fitting it all in via medleys and elisions, simple stage blocking, and costume changes. Music Review: First-Person Reflections On a Pop Career 2011-03-20T21:20:51Z Then the movie, in one of several unexpected elisions, jumps past his saying yes; he simply shows up for work. ‘The Way Back’ Review: Seeking Redemption on the Basketball Court 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s too bad that some of this enlightenment is achieved through huge elisions and license in relating what is still a contested history. Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in ‘Parade’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Even as Handler stacks elision upon lacuna to paper over his plot holes and sudden narrative swerves, the whole house of cards grows more absurd, irrelevant, cloying and rickety. A Series of Unfortunate Events 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Strange too the elision of the questions Roth asked of himself, or rather, put in the mouth of his character Zuckerman in his autobiography “Facts.” In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Yet Mackrell is too rigorous to let this sort of easy elision go without comment. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-01T10:01:01Z This triumph doesn’t redeem Roy’s elisions and reductions, but it does make her anger the most indispensable part of her writing. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, both Worth and Feldman reveal common limitations in Westerners’ perceptions of the so-called “Arab world” — a phrase that in its very broadness should raise red flags for its elision of differences. Revisiting the Arab Spring, in Letters to the Editor 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Another elision is the humdrum and the sinister: triviality is the harbinger of evil, and Ishiguro's prose from the outset is conspicuously dull with trivia. Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011-01-29T00:06:20Z And in an Ozu-ian elision of what other directors might consider essential, the groom disappears from the remaining half-hour, going through with a scheduled departure for northern Japan. Ready to Try an Ozu Film? Watch These Two Family Tales. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z And so the association, the elision, is swiftly clarified. Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011-01-29T00:06:20Z “Plano” toys with language, form and expectations, and the excellent cast savors its elisions and tonal fluxes. Review: The Women of ‘Plano’ Are All About Men 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Its limits, made for both innuendo and artful elision, align with passionate longing: You fall in love with what isn’t there. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Does the elision imply that the concept is redundant? What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The Times story would liberate Vargas from the constant elisions and deceptions, but not from life on the run. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run For the sake of drama, there are elisions. Peter Kosminsky: Britain's humiliation in Palestine 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z “Columbus” can be slyly mysterious from a structural standpoint, both with respect to the plot’s elisions and several cuts that demand that viewers fill in the blanks. Review: Modernism’s Promise and an Auspicious Feature Debut in ‘Columbus’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “Our daily activity hinged on the repeated description — description, elaboration, and delineation — of matters that were, outside, generally subject to euphemism and elision.” Review | Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Who could blame her for making this elision, of trying to rise above? Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z Mr. Gold calibrates the declarations and pauses and elisions with knife-edge precision. Sam Gold and Annie Baker Are an Artistic Pairing Destined to Succeed 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z And, within this fixed frame, there’s a worrying elision of the “real” conspiracies investigated in the show’s first half into the out-there conspiracy “theories” in the second half. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z It’s a clever elision from high art to low art, but it’s part of the book’s message. Reading Amy Schumer: The powerful missed message in “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z When its elisions speak as loudly as its lines. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Nathan Englander Talks About His New Stories 2012-02-17T20:15:02Z The symbolic elision of Wally's volatility with the arbitrary ferocity of nature sits awkwardly with the work's realistic psychology. La Wally ? review 2011-08-01T17:35:37Z This vision of the unconscious also describes a certain type of novelist—one who deploys elision and enigma in his storytelling to provoke and challenge readers. Cormac McCarthy Explains the Unconscious 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Not least of these shorter books’ strengths is the way they trample the coyness and elision that plagues so much American literary fiction on the same themes. Murakami’s understated triumph: What Japan’s most celebrated writer knows that American novelists don’t 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Stoppard’s early life was defined by a series of escapes, and those escapes led to elisions. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z As a writer trying to describe how it is we love, how it is we feel attraction, to not describe the body would be a serious elision, totally unrealistic. A cheater’s guide to everything 2012-09-10T19:49:00Z There are some odd gaps and puzzling emotional elisions in this memoir. Books of The Times: Remembrance of Flavors Past 2011-02-24T16:00:29Z With some elisions, and no clear idea of who was saying what: 'The Americans' Recap: The Moment Finally Arrives 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z She made convenient moral elisions, as with the Maoists’ violence. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z He had to use suggestion — incongruous details, spooky elisions — instead. Film: He?s Fought His Own Way Back to Work 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z The narrative shuffles together multiple points of view ranging across four decades to paint a portrait of a man who sees his life as “a series of elisions, cover-ups, dropped stitches.” A marriage based on secrecy is threatened in ‘This Must Be the Place’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The potential flaw in participatory art is the same problem that has led, in recent times, to the elision of meaning of the words "elite" and "elitist". Calling on the audience to live the dream 2010-08-21T06:00:00Z Style in movies is a living symbol—an act of elision that, whether in image or gesture, in visual composition or mode of performance, conveys far more than is displayed in action. The Curiously Generic Journalists of "Spotlight" 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Here, as in the Handel, there were finger slips, imbalances of voicing and occasional elisions but they counted for less as part of more rounded statements. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Those sorts of elisions, combined with a contrived ending straight out of a “Twilight Zone” rerun, blunt much of the play's essential horror – a shame, considering the obvious potential of Petti's otherwise gripping drama. One family's cry of the 'Banshee' at Theatre of NOTE 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Still, Luiselli builds heat she doesn’t use, preferring the elision provided, halfway through, by a switch from the point of view of the wife/mother/narrator to that of her stepson. Review | An author delivers a powerful plea for migrant children 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z We will collectively be solving for its inky elisions for some time, perhaps the rest of our lives. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z His endnotes point to its undercurrent of ribaldry and double-entendre, and he argues for Verne as artistically innovative in his use of temporal shifts, elisions and flashbacks. Review | ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ — about to get a reboot — is the perfect Christmas tale 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Ignoring the autobiographical elisions, they resonated to the book’s insistence that we mustn’t settle for the spirit-sapping path society has laid out for us. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The transposition derives from Thoma's rather curious elision of the work with the history of itself. Ariadne auf Naxos – review 2013-05-19T16:00:01Z Therefore aid agencies have only themselves to blame for elision between humanitarianism and military intervention. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z Kathy is a "carer", and indeed the notion of the "caring professions" represents precisely that elision of the institutional and the personal that generates the undertone of disturbance in so much of his work. Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011-01-29T00:06:20Z These elisions feel even more jarring given the ample time devoted to Lauryn Hill, an executive producer of the film, who appears throughout to offer broad, mostly gratuitous cultural commentary. ‘Why Is We Americans?’ Review: A Family Synonymous With Newark 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z After all, one summer's failures, its elisions, may be another summer's successes — or at least, that's the hope. Counting on summer's promise of boundless books 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z “Oyamada has great fun playing with the idea of elision, building a propulsive narrative of omission and isolation.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Like amnesias, family secrets are about elisions, things one senses but never comprehends explicitly or in their entirety. A mother's vanishing: A secret that haunted my family for generations, hiding in plain sight 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z But even storytellers of a more prosaic bent could learn something from Jackson’s gift for narrative elision and economy, her insistence on the primacy of the visual and her sparing use of music. Review: 'All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,' one of the year's great debuts, is a major work of art 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z This notion of time as both fixed and fluid extends into the mechanics of the collection: the line breaks, elisions and susurrations, the position of the words on the page. How Ben Lerner's writing shatters space, time and literary borders 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z But especially as the book progresses, the authors slip into cursory rewrites of well-known history and other elisions that, while sometimes small, nevertheless undermine their credibility. Review | Big Business’s relentless push to equate the free market with freedom 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z I saw this elision as a form of commentary on a right-wing government that distracts attention from its failures with demagogic appeals to religion and tribe. A hot new Indian gangster novel thrills and dazzles. It could have done so much more 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z What are the contradictions and elisions that emerge? Joan Didion remains elusive in a Hammer Museum show inspired by her life 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Like Martel, Wells knows the power of narrative elision: “Aftersun” may be a feature-length flashback, but apart from a few lyrical framing elements, its story unfolds in a spare, self-contained present tense. Review: 'Aftersun,' one of the year's great debut films, is a piercing father-daughter story 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Whatever its causes in the real world, the elision in the book is an unforgivable flaw, a black hole at its center. Review: Emmanuel Carrère's new meditation memoir has an NDA-sized hole at its center 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z While the nature of adaptation requires compression and elision, the film dutifully tells the story that fans of the book will turn out to see brought to life on the big screen. Review: 'Where the Crawdads Sing' is the latest literary sensation turned ho-hum movie 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Anger ran high at what many people called the “Ruscists” — an elision of Russians and Fascists that is popular among Ukrainians — in a town that had been largely sheltered from the war up to now. From the Early Morning Sky, Shards of Hot Metal 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The May 11 KidsPost article “How to be daring on Eat What You Want Day” contained an amazing elision. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A skewed picture on abortion 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Any story is a fragile architecture of inclusions and elisions. Appreciation: How Joan Didion punctured California narratives about manifest destiny ... with a potato masher 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z But this is a relatively vague statement that could contain some flattering elisions. Alexa is nagging you more because Amazon knows you don’t care about its new features 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z This story’s inexorable acceleration and its crafty use of suggestion and elision demonstrate the special effects that the best writers can brew up without a single line of Hollywood software — just paper, ink and ghosts. Review | Jenni Fagan’s ‘Luckenbooth’ is a deliciously weird gothic horror 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Perhaps it is because of this elision that when political movements do sweep through hospitals, it becomes impossible to ignore. Medical Schools Need to Get Better at Addressing Structural Racism 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z But when she mentioned “a renowned private university in Palo Alto,” I started wondering whether these elisions were just coy. Review | Inside the unnerving world of Silicon Valley — and how it invaded cyberspace 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z "There does seem to be an elision between 'working class' and 'northern' as if the two things are the same. It is as if being from the South of England and working class doesn't count." Which Labour contender is the most working-class? 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Generation after generation, the elisions of her poetry leave space for us to imprint ourselves. Perspective | We keep revising our idea of Emily Dickinson. We may never get her right. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The danger for exploitative power is that instead of resenting the elision of the boundary between clerks and workers, we embrace it. Rise up, rebel, revolt: how the English language betrays class and power 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Sheck asked what significance the elision of the slur in the documentary’s title meant for American discourse on race in the contemporary age. Literature professor’s name cleared for using N-word in graduate class discussion 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Its content was less provocative than what it didn’t contain, and what that elision suggested: Not everything has to be about Franco. Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z And, as with “Sing to It,” Hempel’s text itself becomes the song that couldn’t be sung by the characters; it exists ideally in its suspensions and elisions, which the reader must inhabit and intuit. Keeping Up with Amy Hempel 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The elision of anti-Zionism and antisemitism is a feature, then, of both sides of the debate. Antisemites use the language of anti-Zionism. The two are distinct | Kenan Malik 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Unlike other disenfranchised groups, gay men with AIDS, many of whom were white and not poor and had been closeted, had experienced the shock of elision. George H. W. Bush’s Presidency Erased People with AIDS. So Did the Tributes to Him 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Certain elements of the “Whole Earth Catalog” haven’t aged particularly well: the pioneer rhetoric, the celebration of individualism, the disdain for government and social institutions, the elision of power structures, the hubris of youth. The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Catalog” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “Boy Erased” is a sobering, justly infuriating movie, but its own convenient elisions keep catharsis at bay. Review: Lucas Hedges' moving performance elevates the thoughtful but muted gay conversion therapy drama 'Boy Erased' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z It includes misquotes of Muslim figures of authority and elisions of fact that portray the Muslim community as dogmatic and unknowable. One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z But at an honor-starved moment when most of our politicians are quicker to shirk responsibility than to shoulder it, I cringe at his evasions, elisions and rationalizations. Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, the sultans of self-pity 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z What matters most is making a cool elision between totalitarian China in 1989 and an American presidency they process through YouTube videos. The Facebooking of Everything 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z As with performing on social media for friends, family or co-workers — posting your best pictures, documenting your most exciting activities or professionally marketing yourself — these individually tiny elisions weren’t entirely honest. Learning to Fool Our Algorithmic Spies 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Every modern nation-state has built itself around some perceived essence, some identity regarded as unique, even if it’s a mixture of truth and lies, elisions and exaggerations. How to sell a country: the booming business of nation branding 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z As owner of the park, the state of Georgia instead appears to have followed a policy of elision and neglect. Opinion | Can this Confederate monument be redeemed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z That elision has continued, to some extent, to the present day. The crucial thing the new Wonder Woman movie gets right 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z That elision, despite Kuenssberg’s admirable subtlety and desire to avoid partiality when trying to interpret complex and fluid events, is problematic. How blurring of fact and comment kicked open the door to fake news | Roy Greenslade 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z At the New York Times, Ben Kenigsberg wrote: “‘Columbus’ can be slyly mysterious from a structural standpoint, both with respect to the plot’s elisions and several cuts that demand that viewers fill in the blanks. Indie Focus: Going places with 'Columbus,' 'Step' and 'Wind River' 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The cut between Grey Worm killing a few people and him striding across a rampart covered in bodies felt like a cheap elision, a maneuver motivated more by budget limitations than by directorial choices. Game of Thrones, The Queen’s Justice was about strategies falling apart 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z “Social media trades on grief,” Cooper writes, “as though each post, each tweet, were a step in the grieving process and not an elision of that very process.” Review | The case against grieving online 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z But to talk to their public, they use the same devices as all storytellers – selection, elision, artful arrangement. Hilary Mantel: why I became a historical novelist 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z In keeping with a program that celebrated expressive elision and the art of the miniature, she did not play another note. An Ice Cream Truck at Carnegie Hall: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Dr. Selwyn told the author only what he could bear to tell, in a narration honeycombed with elisions: we know little, truly, of even a close friend’s interiority. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z That elision, which proves to be enormous, is obligingly corrected by Rosenberg, who documents Murray’s lifelong struggle with gender identity and her sexual attraction to women. The Civil-Rights Luminary You’ve Never Heard Of 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z His attacks on the left and elision of leftwing protest with crime and terrorism made Trump sound calm and measured. Donald Trump vows to 'get the bad people out' of US – as it happened 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “How can you allow the world to forget us, to delete our existence, the grand elision of queer history?” he rails, until Satan—and this brilliant author—ensure that we will not. Rabih Alameddine’s new novel explores the ordeal of remembering 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The elision of that distinction and the rise of malevolent propaganda outfits such as Breitbart News is one of the most baleful trends of modern life. A Columnist’s Responsibility 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The elision in the Bly Report of this seemingly critical discussion came back to bite BP when a federal judge had to determine the company’s liability for the oil spill. ‘Deepwater Horizon’ movie gets the facts mostly right, but simplifies the blame 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Ruth Levitas, a luminary in the academic field of utopian studies, writes defensively about “the elision between perfection and impossibility” employed by critics who dismiss the practicality of utopias. The Return of the Utopians 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Personal prosperity and professional success coincide, and this elision became a staple of the genre. Why Must We Be Efficient? 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Harrower has the focus of a songwriter, and his exquisitely wrought monologues are like odes to Una and Ray’s power struggles, desires, and elisions. The Aftermath of Pedophilia 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z But some of the story gaps feel more like lost opportunities than artful elision. Midnight Special is an E.T. riff that's as much Stephen King as Steven Spielberg 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z On Tuesday morning, Marie Henein, the prominent lawyer leading Ghomeshi’s defense team, spent 90 minutes hammering at apparent contradictions, elisions and omissions in the testimony of the crown prosecutor’s first witness. Jian Ghomeshi trial witness says she sent bikini photo as 'bait' 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Instead, the documentary consistently leads its viewers to the conclusion that Avery was framed by the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department, and it contains striking elisions that bolster that theory. How “Making a Murderer” Went Wrong 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Unlike with more traditional biopics, he says, its elisions and fabrications are entirely by design. Friends and family dislike 'caricature' portrayal in 'Steve Jobs' 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In this manner, the report first presents a small batch of facts and then quickly links them, through pure elision of evidence, to destructive intent. India’s war on Greenpeace | Samanth Subramanian 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s a notable elision because many environmentalists have spent the last few years calling opposition to the pipeline a litmus test for seriousness about fighting climate change. Hillary Clinton Avoids Taking a Stance on Keystone Pipeline 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The passage is as blurry with conflations and elisions as its subject. Violence in the Age of Terror 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But, in the arms race of suffering on television, “Hannibal” ’s elision works as a small, idealistic promise to viewers: while anything can happen, that one thing won’t. The Savory Spectacle of “Hannibal” 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Philosophers also learn to spot the gaps and elisions in everyday arguments. The Role Of Philosophy In Physics 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Defenders of Nixon faulted Dr. Kutler for the elisions he made in order to fit the sprawling conversations into a 700-page book. Stanley Kutler, Watergate historian who helped obtain Nixon tapes, dies 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The exaggerations and elisions on your dating profile, and the ridiculous yet oddly calming amount of time you spent choosing the proper font for your résumé. The ‘Loser Edit’ That Awaits Us All 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z They are as much vehicles for evasion and elision as for clarification, allowing party leaders to adjust priorities under a protective canopy of rhetorical continuity and coherence. The Evolution of Xi Jinping's 'Four Comprehensives' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z These flaws are particularly evident in a third act that depends more on contrivance, convenient elisions and left-field reversals than organic logic for its impact. Oscar Isaac delivers a breakout performance in the moody urban thriller “A Most Violent Year.” 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z It requires, as a rallying point, a degree of elision, adjustment. Ferguson Is the Wrong Tragedy to Wake America Up 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Even beyond the publicity stunts and elisions of fact, NextGen’s campaign largess was itself a capitulation to the post-Citizens United world. How Billionaire Oligarchs Are Becoming Their Own Political Parties 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It was the only touch of defensiveness in a speech that, like many of Obama’s speeches, projected confidence and steady resolve—a crisp counterpoint to the elisions and vagaries of recent weeks. Obama Speech: His New Coalition and the War on ISIS 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z I mean, obviously, we’re shortening and making elisions here and there, but every word you see on the screen is Bradley Manning’s. Alex Gibney: Julian Assange has become like “those he despises” 2013-05-18T16:30:00Z Of course, it's fun to point out the inaccuracies or sensationalism or elisions of historical drama, or history designed for public consumption. Why Richard III's final resting place matters 2013-03-30T07:01:06Z Table XI teaches words of two syllables with the endings ing, short y, and er; also the elision of e. The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 2011-12-28T03:00:37.303Z If any man could reduce phonetic elisions and hiatuses to written and printed symbols, Stuart was that man. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z In these English hexameters I have used and advocate the use of Miltonic elision. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z All had a society divorce case, with sanitary elisions. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Many other names are equally variable, changes due to elision being sometimes, but not always, indicated by accents, as "Bruslé," "Brûlé." Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z The apostrophe is not always used to mark elisions, but is generally put after Ρ final. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z For the same reason it must be considered a very bad fault to have supernumerary syllables, or syllables which would be supernumerary if not cut down by a harsh elision. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The group’s elision from the annals of history is not entirely surprising. How the Hippies Saved Physics [Excerpt] 2011-06-27T17:15:00.397Z The same difficulty in beginning, the same elision of letters under stress of excitement, may occur. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z There are also peculiarities of metre, such as the elision of -ai, which are unheard of in tragic dialogue but regular in the more conversational style of the New Comedy. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The sounds of the Corean are pleasant, and both it and the Japanese allow many alterations and elisions for the sake of euphony. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z A final dactyl, requiring an elision to make it fit its place, appears to me very odious. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z We need to challenge this unjustifiable elision if we are to think seriously about copyright and business models in the age of electronics. The rights and wrongs of digital books 2010-11-04T14:16:45Z Straightforward and readable, it is a book that will undoubtedly infuriate many experts with its elisions and oversimplifications. Books: They Died, and Lived to Tell All About It 2009-11-24T17:36:00Z The elision of s in words ending with us or is short, and sometimes even of the whole syllable, before the next word beginning with a vowel; in scen. i. v. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 However fantastic or out-of-the-way his contributions to the columns of the Times Democrat, they were always inserted without elision. Lafcadio Hearn And no less does the ear repudiate all other violent elisions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Fleda's breath was sometimes taken away by the great bounds and elisions which, on Mrs. Gereth's lips, the course of discussion could take. The Spoils of Poynton Quantity and elision are ignored, and rhymes, assonances, alliterations and harmonies abound in true Irish fashion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" What word of six letters admits of five successive elisions, leaving at each abbreviation a well-known word? The Handbook of Conundrums It should be remembered that let's is really let us, the apostrophe denoting the elision of the u. Every-Day Errors of Speech In modern verse the use of elision and slurring is ordinarily that found in common speech. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Good, nervous dialogue will be full of elisions, mere exclamations, unfinished sentences, gaps that a reader will bridge readily for himself. The Technique of Fiction Writing Professor Skeat points out a unique characteristic of Clanvowe’s versification, namely, the unprecedented freedom with which he employs the suffix of the final -e, and rather avoids than seeks elision. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Many of these forms suffer elision in speaking. The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations The humorous effect produced, in the Beethoven example, by the unexpected elision of the 7th measure is very marked. Music: An Art and a Language He had certainly employed north-country words and elisions; but the accent and the pronunciation seemed unfamiliar and incongruous in my ear. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) "An ungraceful elision" of the possessive inflection, as Mason calls it. Select Poems of Thomas Gray What Latin vowels could or could not form elision in Horace, Propertius, or Ovid, was a subject that cost me much labour, and yet left very small results as far as I was personally concerned. My Autobiography A Fragment "Queer, isn't it?" she asked, and Anne, knowing all that lay in the elision, nodded silently. The Prisoner By the elision of e in the, as is customary, the whole of the intended effect is lost; for th'unbend is nothing more than the usual iambus. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 They could easily have proved that much of the mystical charm which differences poetry from prose resides in its license, its syntactical acrobatics, its affectations of diction, its elisions, its rhymes. Imaginary Interviews Apparent exceptions occur to this last rule where two nasals, two r's or two d's come together through the elision of a vowel or a labial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" I have done my best to string the fragments together into one connected whole, only making such insertions, elisions and alterations as appeared strictly necessary. My Autobiography A Fragment From verse 15 the story and the words it reports become—with the help of the briefer Greek version and the elision of manifest additions in both the Hebrew and the Greek texts671—more definite. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 In the second of the lines above quoted elision is impossible, in the first elision is demanded. Old Familiar Faces The dialect is laconic and yet rambling, full of repetitions, and abounding in curious elisions, that give an unexpected quaintness to the simplest statements. Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation For instance, change in the accent, the elision or the addition of a letter or syllable, the lengthening of a vowel, transposition, and a hundred other little artifices. Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 The reason for its elision current in Alaska is too contemptible to be referred to further. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America In her very lapses, her gentle elision of the aitch, he found a foreign, an infantile, a pathetic charm. The Creators A Comedy Now elision is very specially demanded in a line like that which opens ‘Orpheus in Hades,’ where the pause of the line fall upon the. Old Familiar Faces A glance at the following vocabulary will enable the reader to understand Daddy Jack's dialect perfectly, though allowance must be made for inversions and elisions. Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation I would as soon have my hair cut off as an intolerable Scotch shortness put into my titles by the elision of little words. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 The word rivers cannot be used with elision—the v is a hard pebble in the flow, and so are the closing consonants. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Nor can it be easily illustrated how words of many different languages were bent by elisions or stretched by vocables, that they might conform to the musical phrase. Indian Story and Song from North America On the other hand, the elision of the second syllable of the word music in the other line quoted above is equally faulty in another direction. Old Familiar Faces But this h is no longer sounded, although it still, by tradition, prevents elision and liaison, mistakes in which are regarded much in the same way as a misplaced aspirate in English. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) A vessel is ordered for “particular service,” why so called I know not, except that there may be an elision, and it means “particularly disagreeable service.” Olla Podrida In spite of the soft vocal elisions of the West, his speech had a dignity that suggested breeding. The Highgrader "Catie there?" she asked again, with the crisp elision of one whose life has been too strenuous to waste itself in the more leisurely forms of speech. The Brentons But as we said when reviewing Mr. Bridges’s treatise on Milton’s prosody, nothing is more striking than the helplessness of most recent poets when confronted with the simple question of elision. Old Familiar Faces Virtually, the fragmentary portions thus taken from his larger works were re-written by him, with countless elisions and eliminations after having been selected. Charles Dickens as a Reader An apostrophe marks elisions and the possessive case. Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically When Cousin Giles was excited he made elisions of speech rather unusual for a Boston man. A Little Girl in Old Salem The Middle Voice becomes, by an elision, the Neuter Verb. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy This important shade of meaning may be given, I think, by the possessive u which originally belonged in the phrase, but suffered elision. The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 It was pure Appenzell, a German made up of singular and puzzling elisions, and with a very strong guttural k and g, in addition to the ch. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Oh, our elisions are governed by well-defined laws which each one comprehends, while here——" "Every man is a law unto himself. The Holladay Case A Tale He must remember that his art traces in ancestry from the tribal huntsman telling tales about the cave-fire; and so, strives to emulate not human life, but human speech, with its natural elisions and falsifications. Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines There were still elisions, questions answered with a half-phrase, comments added with a disconnected word and replied in another word that—in cold print—would appear to have no bearing on the original subject. The Fourth R The b in an elision sometimes changes to p. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea She scarcely sounded the t in Kentucky, since she also was of the South, where the languid air tends to produce elisions. The Debtor A Novel He made elisions and emendations that removed the bedroom scene from the tale. The Big-Town Round-Up She held up her thin wrinkled hands with a little gesture of elision, at which her expressive shoulders assisted. A Comedy of Masks A Novel The elisions, I believe, are all cured, with only one exception. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper In the grammar and vocabulary the syllable which may be elided is enclosed in a bracket, and in compound words and phrases the elision is marked with an apostrophe, as in the preceding examples. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea This shows a decline in the proportional duration of the elision as the total value of the measure elided increases. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Besides that the mark of elision is improper, for in the Lords' house nothing is cut off. A Grammar of the English Tongue "I will do her the justice to add that she only suggested it once," continued the girl with a smile of elision. A Comedy of Masks A Novel Many elisions still remained unsoftened; the compound epithets I found not always happily combined, and the same sometimes too frequently repeated. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper A noun in the possessive case, should always be distinguished by the apostrophe, or mark of elision; as, The nation's glory. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures There can be little question that this principle applies also to the value of elisions of higher rhythmic structures as well. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. On the whole, he left you dubious until the moment when, from pure nervousness, his speech went wild, even suffering that slight elision of the aspirate observed by some of them. The Divine Fire He cut the Gordian knot of harmonic pedagogy by the mere weapon of poetic elision. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies The alliteration is sometimes obscured by elisions and contractions, but never quite disappears. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 Regarding the allusion to a terminal vowel, it may be mentioned here that as most Kowrarega words end in a vowel, its absence when a vowel commences the following word is commonly owing to elision. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 The contractions, elisions, and corruptions which German words undergo, with the multitude of terms in common use derived from the Gothic, Greek, Latin, and Italian, give it almost the character of a different language. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The former method is termed elision, and the latter, slurring. Composition-Rhetoric I do not indeed absolutely covenant that I will discard all my elisions, but I hereby bind myself to discard as many of them as, without sacrificing energy to sound, I can. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters But in prose the elision should be very sparingly indulged; it is in general less agreeable, as well as less proper, than the regular form. The Grammar of English Grammars On the contrary, instances of defective grammar, harsh elisions, strained metaphors, and incomplete expressions are multiplied. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts I have cast about, to find a sonorous form of elision, in which it may come into popular use, but find nothing more eligible than I-go-mee, or Igoma. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Three lines lower Milton has no elision of the y before a vowel in the line, Against the throne and monarchy of God. The Spectator, Volume 2. Far finer shades of character are indicated by the amiable elisions of Mrs. Vockerat Senior in Lonely Lives, the recurrent crassness of Mrs. Scholz in The Reconciliation, and the solemn reiterations of Michael Kramer. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I As that contains no w, how, in the event of a new elision, will the Parisians, who are so fond of English words, manage to spell wheelwright? Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870 At Tetbury by noon.—I hope, after it is sent, there will be no more elisions. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 He was carefully suppressing all mention of Frognall Street, and in Calendar's glance read approval of the elision. The Black Bag There is elision of y in the line, That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall. The Spectator, Volume 2. Here, as in other writers of the age, the influence of Ovid is traceable in the increase of dactyls and the avoidance of elision. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal "Safe out" is the common elision for safe out of Connemara. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 He would accelerate this wished-for elision of love by procuring absolutely indisputable proof of Mortimer's dishonesty. Thoroughbreds At the age of eleven, Leibnitz records, that he made, on one occasion, three hundred Latin verses without elision between breakfast and dinner. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 There is not an elision of Milton's without precedent in the dramatists from whom he learned to write blank-verse. Among My Books Second Series Except in the avoidance of elision there is no trace of the influence of Ovid. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal I found the half-forgotten Southern intonations and elisions as pleasing to my ear as they had formerly been. Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. The elision is not a happy one, and the mere suppression of the "and" does not produce a satisfying line. Memoirs of My Dead Life In elision he stands midway between Catullus and Ovid, inclining, however, more nearly to the latter. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Mr. Masson does not seem to understand this elision, for he corrects i' th' midst to i' the midst, and takes pains to mention it in a note. Among My Books Second Series As far as his metre has any ancestry, it is descended from the Vergilian hexameter, though with the licence of satire it claims greater liberty in its treatment of pauses and of elision. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal I think the disposition to elision and contraction is as evident here as it is at present in Somersetshire. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire But whether she cared a jot for him and his feelings he could not clearly make out, from the style of the hurried, ungrammatical sentences, crammed with abbreviations and unpermissible elisions. An American Politician The correspondence thus lost by improved caesura is partially re-established by more careful elision. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Though Mr. Masson talks of "slurs and elisions," his ear would seem somewhat insensible to their exact nature or office. Among My Books Second Series It was the elision of the weaker element—the survival of the fittest; and some, indeed very many, mothers must lose their sons that way. The Desert of Wheat His pleasure in the poetry itself will not be distracted by a marginal numbering of the lines; by index-figures and footnotes; or by antiquated peculiarities of spelling, capitalization, and elision. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century There was also all the obscurity arising from elision, and from the most extravagant and hyperbolical epithets. The Betrothed The chief feature which makes the other way is the extreme rarity of elisions, which, as a rule, are frequent in Virg. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius This language, with its soft elisions, its odd transpositions, its kindly contempt for consonants and other disagreeables, has in it something peculiarly human and accommodating. Italian Hours Truly the English, before any other vulgar language I know, is fit for both sorts: for, for the ancient, the Italian is so full of vowels, that it must ever be cumbered with elisions. English literary criticism Imperfect periods are frequent; elisions are perpetual; and many of the minor words, which would be deemed essential in prose, are dispensed with. The Philosophy of Style May not the singular form of this word have given rise to the Latin "Maurus," by elision of the Ghayn, to Italians an unpronounceable consonant? Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 Here we have as many as twenty-two lines without elision. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Its history, at first so halting, came to be very swift—so swift that it worked great elisions in its own story. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West Truly the English, before any vulgar language I know, is fit for both sorts; for, for the ancient, the Italian is so full of vowels, that it must ever be cumbered with elisions. A Defence of Poesie and Poems Such writing is free, unaccompanied by errors in spelling, there is no elision of syllables and no difficulty in finding the words desired. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 The female of his kind came with him—a pale girl, shoddy and a little rouged; and they communicated in a nasal argot, mainly insolences and elisions. The Turmoil, a novel |
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