Sentence examples for cut the text from inspiring English sources

In adapting the play, John Logan (who worked on Gladiator and Scorsese's Howard Hughes biography, The Aviator) has sharply cut the text, removing the obscurer passages but retaining its lucidity and eloquence and providing a sharp, graphic narrative.

M Parshley, garbled a number of Beauvoir's key philosophical terms — swapping "subject" for "subjective," for instance — and at Knopf's insistence cut the text by some 150 pages.

Next we cut the text down from 228 pages to 40, to make a working script from which we could devise staging solutions.

Although Mr. Stein said he cut the text by a third in creating the titles, they still seemed to be just behind or just ahead of the action onstage).

And, where Olivier's movie Hamlet cut the text ruthlessly, Branagh gave us a full four-and-a-half hour version even finding room for a brief glimpse of Ken Dodd as Yorick.

When, for example, Sir Peter Hall directed Hamlet at the National Theatre in 1975, his diary lamented that, despite advances in our understanding of Shakespeare, "we still cut the text like barbarians".

The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said in June that the negotiations were proceeding at "a snail's pace" after a fortnight of talks in Bonn cut the 90-page text by just four pages.

These were cut from the text over 200 years ago.

"I expected to have to cut from the text," Mr. Mroué said.

Cut out the text.

yes you may not have enough space for it, but do not paraphrase and just cut off the text that cannot fit/not the most suitable for the article.