An elegant, unfussy writer, he compresses years of analysis into short chapters that feel like minimalist, suspenseful detective stories.
Deftly compressing years into pages, Ms. Lessing swiftly complicates this story: A teenage Victoria has an affair with Thomas, becomes pregnant, breaks off the affair, has the baby without telling him, marries another man, becomes a widow and eventually tells Thomas about their daughter, Mary.
Though the weaker tales in this volume highlight Mr. Trevor's penchant for manipulating his characters' fates to lend his story lines neat ironic twists, he always manages to give the reader a sense of the entire arc of their lives, compressing years, even decades, into a few sharply observed lines.
When the time comes to write their thesis, many Ph.D. candidates find it difficult to compress years of reading literature, conducting experiments, and analyzing results into a clear, complete, and coherent dissertation.
These movies compress years of practice, hard work and dedication into a two-hour visual montage of how easy it is to overcome a significantly better team, win a high-stakes game, and even acquire a really hot girlfriend in the process.
It was more like a paid MBA and I wish I'd had that 5-7 years compressed to 1-2 years".
She joked that she has compressed 300 years of fashion history into one set of garments, manufactured by seamstresses at the house.
The critic Richard Schickel, who produced, directed and wrote it, has compressed the years of a vast war into two hours without a coherent thesis beyond the worthy desire to pay homage to the photographers and the invaluable record they kept.
Along with wax models, watercolors, paintings and instruments, he gravitated toward novelty items, like the bladder stones of Chief Justice John Marshall, as well as the deformed skeleton of a woman whose rib cage had been compressed by years of tying a corset too tightly.
3 With societal expectances of an increasing older population, interventions that compress years with disability alongside increased life expectancy are warranted.
