Sentence examples for act of revision from inspiring English sources

The act of revision is a kind of grooming, counting, ordering impulse.

But that's an act of revision: slavery as refracted through Pankhurst's cultural reference set was a metaphor for the removal of agency and dignity.

The first act of revision would be to cut the redundant opening two lines, which threaten to muffle the much more interesting third.

Her reinterpretation of the significance of these flower arrangements is partly why they are so compelling: this is her act of revision.

Presiding over a motley, talented assembly is Helen Mirren as Prospera, the former duchess of Milan and Ms. Taymor's most provocative and persuasive act of revision.

"It's by noting the role of each word and punctuation mark," he writes, "that the greats are able to hone their writing"—an observation that at once understates the act of revision and ignores the ecstatic, almost compulsive sloppiness that makes some writers great.

COPPA has undergone a number of revisions since its introduction, and may soon go through another major round of changes with the Do Not Track Kids Act of 2015 currently in Congress.

In 2011, Alba participated in a two-day lobbying effort in Washington D.C. in support of the Safe Chemicals Act, a revision of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976.

He seemed to understand implicitly that canon making itself was an act of creativity and revision; that a survey of an art form wasn't the same thing as a survey of its reception.

Usher describes the innovation process as the perception of an unsatisfied need, setting the stage following the primary act of insight, critical revision and development (Usher 1954, 1955).

The act faces the threat of revision in the legislature.