as in deletion
something left out
unfortunately, when the book was condensed, some of the elisions rendered major plot developments incomprehensible
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The movie proceeds by way of hints and winks, understatements and elisions, that are part of a transaction between director and audience: with a word to the wise, the audience gets the idea of Lenny and Felicia that Cooper wants to put out.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
In all wunderkammer, there are convenient elisions: of the wealth that built them, of the creators behind the objects, of how these items ended up in European hands.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
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.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
The elisions distort every aspect of Cooper’s filmmaking.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
In all wunderkammer, there are convenient elisions: of the wealth that built them, of the creators behind the objects, of how these items ended up in European hands.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
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.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
The elisions distort every aspect of Cooper’s filmmaking.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
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“Elision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elision. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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