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

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

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

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

What are the contradictions and elisions that emerge?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

Stoppard’s early life was defined by a series of escapes, and those escapes led to elisions.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

She scarcely sounded the t in Kentucky, since she also was of the South, where the languid air tends to produce elisions.

From The Debtor A Novel by William Dodge Stevens