elision
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2023
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
The elision of Shelby’s private life is a sleight of hand that obscures, above all, the complexity of life—it suggests a sheer unwillingness to contend with facts that don’t easily fit into a sentimental schema.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2019
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
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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