Philosophy can be read as elaborating on that elision. From Wordnik.com. [Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.] Reference
Why embrace the elision of a neat and useful distinction?. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Mangan: All style and substance] Reference
The Middle Voice becomes, by an elision, the Neuter Verb. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The elision between warmth, security and heroin is entire. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - the punk foot of nose] Reference
No smooth liaison is permitted, certainly no swift elision. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
I'm starting a discussion here, often with questions and elision. From Wordnik.com. [The number of Americans who have died in the Iraq war...] Reference
The elision of this phrase is matched by an elision of Plato's own. From Wordnik.com. [Plato on Friendship and Eros] Reference
There is a trick of elision which leaves the same sort of impression. From Wordnik.com. [Tangled Nicaragua: An Exchange] Reference
Did your friend explain the apparent elision of the sigma in seauton?. From Wordnik.com. [Written in stone: know thyself] Reference
The elision of to what necessity the precedent is oriented is telling. From Wordnik.com. [A Jack Bauer Moment] Reference
But theres something worse in store than that bit of assymetric elision. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
Facts, such as you tender, are worthy of elision when diversity is atstake. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Would Sotomayor be the First Justice Not to Have English as Her Native Language?:] Reference
Virgil's powerful influence the elision of long vowels would have almost ceased. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it] Reference
But Burnes's elision in this regard is destabilized by a number of other sources. From Wordnik.com. [Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier] Reference
In poetry and familiar dialogue the apostrophe marks the elision of a syllable, as. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
I think the disposition to elision and contraction is as evident here as it is at present in. From Wordnik.com. [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference
Congress killed off the rest of it, and essentially started the Civil War with that elision. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: A Geek's Fourth of July: Reading the Declaration of Independence] Reference
Another convention carried over from the source document is the redaction and elision of text. From Wordnik.com. [Poet's Choice: "Will There Be More Than One 'Questioner'?" by Nick Lantz] Reference
People have started pronouncing it with part of its middle missing - that's what elision is. '. From Wordnik.com. [Fleshmarket Close]
Note also my elision of faith and race - after all, if it's good enough for the Government. From Wordnik.com. [Unbelievable] Reference
In Brooklyn, that elision sounded more like a kind of lovable, arrogant laziness of the tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
Mairi called out in her clear voice, her eyes looking up to his for his approval of that elision. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Pern, First Fall]
My meaning, which refers to a lesser technical point, was thus grossly distorted by this elision. From Wordnik.com. [For Sociobiology] Reference
May not the singular form of this word have given rise to the Latin “Maurus,” by elision of the. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
This elision has been driven by celebrities, ecowarriors, demonstrators, bureaucrats and politicians. From Wordnik.com. [Lesson in climate-change science] Reference
Perhaps more surprising is the elision of ethnic differences in women's selection of tinhlanga designs. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
Celebrities were manufactured, their brands honed by teams of marketers, then maintained through elision. From Wordnik.com. [Fallen Stars] Reference
Therefore aid agencies have only themselves to blame for elision between humanitarianism and military intervention. From Wordnik.com. [Does humanitarian aid prolong wars?] Reference
Note the modest elision ( "it was Don Rumsfeld who noticed my work") of the speaker's own active role in these events. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney: The Fatal Touch] Reference
Buried in that quick elision from rebates to oil companies are two qualifiers: "to folks who really need it" and "potentially.". From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Obama Walking The Walk On Change] Reference
Dialog is as close as possible to actual words spoken, but please allow for human error and unintentional lacunae and/or elision. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Conference Call 3/25/08 - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
This elision (communicative = speaking) is beginning to look shaky in this discussion (cf Jason, Cecilia, Glennie, Steven, Ceri). From Wordnik.com. [C is for Communicative « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
But in this case the elision is critical; leaving out the "near" clearly takes sides -- against the "mosque" and against accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Sledge: Just How Far Is the "Ground Zero Mosque" From Ground Zero?] Reference
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