How To Use Elision In A Sentence
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Unhappily, the argument rides on the back of some startling oversimplifications, exaggerations and elisions.
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I had to use ctrl-z many times in my editor to revert from a version where I thought elision was working and then for some reason, it just didn't work anymore.
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We aimed to uncover the elisions that had silenced our experiences, for example, as working class women, and in Jo's case, as someone living with cancer.
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This is a rough cut, with some missing audio and some elisions, but it's fascinating to see how thoroughly choreographed this number was when so little of the choreography is visible in the finished film.
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As Liz Frost explores, there is an elision between the consumer power of youth in the Western world, and its ideation as physical perfection.
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Various non-docile members of the community, who Campbell attacks, spend a great amount of time analysing his words and actions for anomalies and wilful elisions.
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Visual experience thus takes the place of the kind of self-revelation expected in an autobiographical narrative, leaving the reader with mystifying elisions in Lucy's life story.
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Across Europe, among the sceptics and the doubters and the out-and-out protesters, a pernicious process of elision is taking place.
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Similar to the Raskind and Higgins study, the present research also found significant increases in phonological awareness (i.e., phonological elision and nonword reading).
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Yet regardless of such formalist elisions, this essay remains enlightening precisely for its heuristic clarity.
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There is an elision here in the use of the term ‘resource’.
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This prevents hiatus, which is banished from Provencal verse as it is from French, and here again theory and practice are in accord, for the elision of the e mute where this e follows a vowel readmits hiatus into the French line, and no such phenomenon is known to the Provencal.
Frederic Mistral
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As either a broadcast or digital networked democracy, the individual and his/her body are identified as the central fount of expressive freedom, an elision from the controlling power of institutionalized capitalism and the state.
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Reading his copious letters - this fat book is only a fifth of the 2,500-odd surviving, and there are elisions in most of those included - is very like hearing him talk.
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The elision of two relatively stable and legitimate discourses of the idea of ‘capital’ and ‘emotional intelligence’ is a clever rhetorical move.
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Constantly, the editing makes tiny elisions within the dialogue.
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But Brontë's response implies that if we resist filling in the blanks and instead look closely at these elisions, we may find something more powerful in their place: a picture without words.
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One of the delights of his squibs is the gleeful elision of NewLab multi-culti PC-speak with management gobbledegook and Pentagonese.
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Like Mann, Wood develops the theme of the ‘imperialism of trade’, which is to say an elision of two apparently contradictory themes, direct domination, and free exchange.
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I might as well declare my out-and-out fandom at the outset, born of the way each film accumulates authoritatively into its meaning through elisions and congruencies that are virtually baroque in their coiled vitality.
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Among all of Caravaggio's self-reflexive images, none captures the elision from specularity to spectatorship more dynamically than the disembodied head of the Medusa.
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The essay is excellent, and there is a temptation to admire this piece's intelligence and insights to the point at which one overlooks its elisions and oversights.
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The SRBP also improved the performance of the target group when compared with the contrast group on phonological elision and nonword reading efficiency tasks.
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As is evident from my translation, the elision is that of an imperative verb.
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However, this involves compaction and an elision; the self processes memory selectively.
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Still others prefer a middle option that keeps the apostrophe for omission and elision but drops it for plurality and possession.
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Aside from occasionally adopting hubby Elvis Costello's cute little habit of syllabic elision, The Girl is character-free.
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No matter where you look in Performance, you find inconsistency, elisions, inaccuracies, and omissions.
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Every representation is defined by what it compresses or leaves out, and those elisions are made with a specific user in mind.
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All this Taylor achieves with subtle elisions and slides and what are often the most fleeting of flatted notes.
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But if your intention in writing this piece was actually to persuade the undecided, your unserious tone and glib elision of important foundational arguments has defeated your intent.
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His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
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Pollock, the veteran actor Ed Harris's directorial debut, is a mass-audience movie, not a peer-reviewed treatise, and so it's not fair to pick at historical inaccuracies or elisions.
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He has made substantial elisions and revisions to the facts for the sake of the story's flow.
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Unlike (effortless elision here) the surface of the new-fashioned loathsome double-decker conductorless buses.
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I also thought I had gleaned the ghost of a Southern accent, a fraction of elision smudging the edge of breath dividing "you" and "all.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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As for _t'one_ and _t'other_, they should be _'tone_ and _'tother_, being elisions for _that one_ and _that other_, relics of the Anglo-Saxon declinable definite article, still used in Frisic.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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This is hardly the place to rehearse the errors and elisions in his original article, or the way it allows its thesis like a steamroller to flatten the facts.
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Still others prefer a middle option that keeps the apostrophe for omission and elision but drops it for plurality and possession.
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Across Europe, among the sceptics and the doubters and the out-and-out protesters, a pernicious process of elision is taking place.
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Such forms lead to distortions, exclusions, elisions and the establishment of hegemonies.
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This is hardly the place to rehearse the errors and elisions in his original article, or the way it allows its thesis like a steamroller to flatten the facts.
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His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
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But the eighty-four-minute film's more crucial faults are really its elisions and omissions, among them its failure to flesh out its distinctive characters.
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This is such an obvious elision that one's instinct is to read the passage again and look for a misprint, or a set of scare quotes - but, no, it is written as intended.
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The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
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In order to make sense of these elisions, we need to turn our attention momentarily to a more focused consideration of such instances of language use, one account of which is offered by sociolinguistics.
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Again, with a little elision, this song speaks almost directly to voters.
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The Elision subtest is a deletion task with the child required to restate a word with either syllables or single sounds omitted from the beginning, middle, or end of the word.
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There are many assimilations and elisions of consonants and vowels, such as the dropping of t in such words as cyclists, the reduction of and to n, or the compression of such auxiliary sequences as gonna and wouldn'a'been.
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The quotation contains a series of elisions: of time and place, of ancient and modern women, of women's bodies and the earth's body, of nostalgia and healing.
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It was then but an intellectual elision to view abstraction as the purest of all styles, since it depicted nothing at all.
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ELISION, the omission or crowding out of unstressed words or unaccented syllables to make the metre smoother; a term belonging to classical prosody and inappropriate in English prosody except where syllable-counting verse is concerned.
The Principles of English Versification
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The role of the analyst is to hear the voice of the unconscious, which makes itself audible through the censorship of consciousness in riddles, allusions, elisions, and omissions.
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Finally I came to recognize that there seems to be some relation between the enabling of lock elision and the data size of the locked object.
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First, to dispense with the comparison of editions: apart from an altered layout and a few minor elisions and emendations, the book is the same as it ever was (as the lyric goes).
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He puts sequences together classically, with no elisions.
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But I love hearing French rapped - all those elisions and sibilants are a dreamy alternative to hard-consonant English spitting.
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Elisions, stretti, contractions, prolongations and antiphonal presentations are only some of the devices the composer frequently employs to achieve a pacing that clarifies the overall direction of the melodic trajectory of a piece.
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Metaphorically, the elisions occur in the image of kissing.