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Don Paterson doubts that Shakespeare "ever revised a poem without improving it significantly", and he might have had more confidence about his own talents in that line.
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Do monkeys ever revise their choices?
A few decades ago, the advent of the word processor made it easier than ever to revise on the fly; it also made it easy to dwell on one sentence ad infinitum, gilding the lily where once one would've advanced to the next thought.
The sequence and others in which Harper, also hallucinating, is featured are where the ever-revising Kushner has yet to find the right balance.
The idea of adding something new to your repertory of belongings - be it as tiny as a modish bottle opener or as large as a cashmere winter coat - seems to suggest by some process of osmosis a change bigger than itself: Life might open up with you in possession of this new item, or you yourself might be ever so slightly revised and adopt a whole new worldview.
Set primarily in 1744 and 1745, Amazing Grace depicts Newton's story, its timeline revised ever so slightly for the sake of tidiness.
Projections are now being revised upwards, ever upwards; pitched out towards the clear blue yonder.
A bloated release list of downloadable content (DLC) and themed editions, together with an ever expanding roster of revised controllers, accelerated the general sense of genre fatigue.
However, it is a workaday patchwork of a document started a century ago and revised repeatedly ever since, which bears less resemblance to the Declaration of Independence than to a town zoning code.
Being ever ready to revise, learning even hard lessons, should always be the order of the day.
Who has ever heard of an estimate being revised downward?
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