elision

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

The May 11 KidsPost article “How to be daring on Eat What You Want Day” contained an amazing elision.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022

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.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020

Late in Uncanny Valley, Wiener seems to make a specific argument about her adventures in elision.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2020

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.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

It’s frank, intimate, poetic in its elisions and profoundly haunting in its effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

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.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

Epstein reduces millennia of human history to the preindustrial age, and everything after, making some convenient elisions in the process.

From Slate ● May 31, 2022

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.

From The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James