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

Strange too the elision of the questions Roth asked of himself, or rather, put in the mouth of his character Zuckerman in his autobiography “Facts.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2021

One of the first things you notice about Anna Wiener’s Silicon Valley memoir Uncanny Valley is the author’s elegant 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

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

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022

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

I have done my best to string the fragments together into one connected whole, only making such insertions, elisions and alterations as appeared strictly necessary.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller