Sentence examples for editing himself from inspiring English sources

He might even have been editing himself, which is anything but a natural act for him.

"Tonight would have been a great opportunity," D'Antoni said, editing himself from speaking the truth that it was.

Completion took three years, and, since Heller was incapable of editing himself — he was a compulsive adder and fixer — Gottlieb was heavily involved in shaping the text.

Kierkegaard published treatises under multiple pseudonyms, then managed the trick of editing himself under still other pseudonyms, earning him bonus sock-puppet points, even if that seems to miss the entire point of having an editor.

In fact if anything the former history lecturer has had more trouble editing himself into the debate format, complaining at times at not being given long enough to answer questions.

Some grumbled, but Writers Workshop was a beacon, not a charity.No secretary, assistant or copy editor helped him; he did all the nitty gritty of correcting and editing himself, working from his library cum study where Shakespeare, Tagore, Eliot and Frost gazed down from the walls.

Before Russell could edit himself, he spat out, angrily and regrettably: "Be quiet, Uncle Tom".

He went on too long, and didn't edit himself well.

He doesn't seem to edit himself, believing that every word is sacred.

Gregg Jarrett, an MSNBC anchor, edited himself after calling the story "a developing scandal".

Then he edited himself: "Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy".