With Beijing likely to scrutinize Mr. Chen's words like freshly cut diamonds, Mr. Tien said the president-elect was putting the passage of the speech that deals with China through endless drafts.
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, a novel of gay love, inspired by baseball, was almost a decade in the writing, the product of endless drafts and repeated disappointment.
His seductively simple style (no doubt achieved through endless drafts, for Chaudhuri tells us that he wrote the first draft longhand, on paper) comes into its own when describing character, as here: "Mrs Mukherjee sat upon her chair in the ground-floor flat in Lower Circular Road, almost meditating, except for the wicked, abstracted look the squint gave her, and the inward smile.
I benefited enormously from helpful colleagues who read and commented on endless drafts and also provided their services as collaborators on my proposals.
He'll draft endless lists of pros and cons, weighing religious affiliation, height and motherly potential.
As a director who has spent most of her career working with living writers, I can hear Gelbart's howl of pain at the stupidity of directors and producers, and their endless demands for drafts and redrafts.
Although the texture of the lost world Eco captures is almost moving now – the scribbled cards, the photocopies, the endless retyping of drafts – it is the state of mind he prescribes that matters, not the moraine of vintage technology that supports it.
Or a canny cardinal who knows the ways of Brussels and can draft the endless compromises that keep the EU show on the road?
PSC, DGE, CFSP, EUMS, CIVCOM – an endless stream of acronyms, drafts and position papers feeds the inner circle of the Brussels security apparatus.
Unlike the games themselves, with their zero-sum results, the draft allows for endless variables.
