Sentence examples for abandoned version from inspiring English sources

In one abandoned version, the son character (sometimes he's a daughter) mails the gloves back to the father, along with a forged letter, purportedly written by a long-dead friend of the father, a man the father had once betrayed.

One abandoned version recalls "my last sight of you alive / burning your last letter to me … yet with that strange smile, as if you had meant something quite [heavily crossed out] different".

So it felt less like an abandoned draft – one of those projects every writer has, which seems like a great idea until it clearly isn't – than an abandoned version of Heller himself.

It's more exciting, dramatic and revealing than the film itself and includes footage from an abandoned version starring Jason Robards as Fitzcarraldo and Mick Jagger as his actor-sidekick.

The publisher's decision to present it as "Harper Lee's New Novel" instead of "a rough beginning for a classic" was "disappointing and frankly shameful", the bookshop declared, comparing it to James Joyce's Stephen Hero – an abandoned version of his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Few serious China-watchers ever believed that the Chinese had abandoned their version of socialism.

So when Ikea casually abandoned its version of the famed 20th-century font Futura that had served it for 50 years and replaced it for 2010 with the computer-screen font Verdana, professional outrage was immense.

How hard is it to abandon a version of oneself into which one has put some effort?

Both artists were repeatedly accused of abandoning some version of their own roots, whether it was gospel, blues, soul, or R&B.

Here, finally, was proof that America's failure to abandon its version of the English system of weights and measures had become an unsustainable folly.

"This is why we cannot abandon the version that a collision occurred," he said, "because we have parts bent to the inside".