elision

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It’s too bad that some of this enlightenment is achieved through huge elisions and license in relating what is still a contested history.

From New York Times

“Our daily activity hinged on the repeated description — description, elaboration, and delineation — of matters that were, outside, generally subject to euphemism and elision.”

From Washington Post

“Every nation has to have a story,” said Annette Gordon-Reed, a historian at Harvard whose new book “On Juneteenth” parses the elisions and simplifications at the heart of various origin narratives.

From New York Times

Oyamada has great fun playing with the idea of elision, building a propulsive narrative of omission and isolation.

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times