Mr. Weston descends from Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, who turned jagged, brutally edited phrases into swing and protected small pockets of space.
If I had been editing that phrase, I would've put a comma between large and green". Language rules aren't always cut and dried.
Mr. Fast subsequently edited the material, rearranging phrases and images, so that, in a play of Gertrude Steinian logic, historical character and actor are mixed together.
He said Tuesday he should have edited more of the phrasing out of the speech he gave Sunday.
As I opened each email I read with growing dread the comments she had edited into our correspondence, phrases like "don't you know he's married?" or "isn't this cute that you are meeting".
Some news organizations, for example, simply identify the government's "reporter" as one of their own and then edit out any phrase suggesting the segment was not of their making.
This mistake, a very common one among the professional writers I edit, means a phrase that should have been in parallel structure somehow fell short.
Such a misspoken or tripped-over word or phrase sometimes gets edited out of a taped interview in an act of kindness.
Onstage, actors hear the edited versions through earphones and imitate them phrase by phrase, reproducing every inflection, accent, and hesitation.
Trekkie Parsons slept in Virginia Woolf's bedroom and worked in her studio; he wrote new love letters using the old phrases, while he edited for publication an important source for his own recollections, Virginia Woolf's diaries.
The Times executive editor Abe Rosenthal was so offended that both the phrase and Ivins were edited out.
