In "Beau Travail", this elision occurs when the arrival of a gentle, almost effeminate new recruit throws Denis Lavant's rigid notions of masculinity into confusion.
Watch for more elision in 2008: with luck, growing links between Spain and Latin America will go Splat.Heads and tails No presentation about the internet is complete without a reference to the "long tail", a theory on how the web can make lots of niche products more important than a few blockbusters (the short head).
Hiatus is the opposite of elision, the dropping or blurring of the second vowel; it is also distinct from diphthongization, in which the vowels blend to form one sound.
On the other hand, motivic melodies, such as those in the intermezzi, coupled with slow harmonic motion, lend themselves well to fragmentation, recombination, extension, elision, reharmonization, and other developmental techniques.
It is not just the adopted elision of Israeli children into Jewish children that is alarming, or the unquestioning acceptance of Caryl Churchill's offered insider knowledge of Israeli child-rearing, what's most chilling is that lazy use of the word "bred", so rich in eugenic and bestial connotations, but inadvertently slipped back into the conversation now, as truth.
Chronicling the life of a single subject is an exhausting feat of research, tact and elision.
She then murdered what sounded like an old English ballad about underage sex - sharp, flat and most points in between - which turned out to be Pentangle's "The Trees They Grow High", the very height of that group's curious elision of the English folk tradition and art-jazz.
Tweeted no doubt in righteous haste, it is a headlong elision of cause and effect, deflecting blame from the terrorists, minimising their crime, and turning the French into their own murderers.
Foreigners often think that Romance speech is particularly rapid and voluble, no doubt because individual words receive only light stress (or, in French, no stress), and elision, the running of words into each other within stress groups, is common.
All the familiar tropes and tactics were in play: the unfolding of a crisis in the social margins, the fabular swiftness of the storytelling, a determined elision of frippery and fuss.
Truss, a former sports columnist for the London Times, appears to have been set a-blaze by two obsessions: superfluous apostrophes in commercial signage ("Potatoe's" and that sort of thing) and the elision of punctuation, along with uppercase letters, in e-mail messages.
