Sentence examples for reviser from inspiring English sources

(That fluency of Dutilleux's music is an illusion, however; it's rather a hard-won prize of sometimes years of hard graft and applied craft – and there's another ironic echo of Boulez's mania for revision that Dutilleux is also a meticulous reviser of his pieces).

Richardson was an indefatigable reviser of his own work, and the various editions of his novels differ greatly.

Lowell had been a chronic, sometimes hectic reviser of his work, publishing multiple versions of many poems.

But O'Hara was a reluctant reviser, unable to enrich material that already seemed to him self-evidently rich.

He had become, after his graphomaniacal boyhood, a scrupulously slow and patient reviser.

I tend to be a flash-and-burn reviser.

Mr. Markson's books expressed, both mischievously and earnestly, the hem-and-haw self-consciousness of the perpetual thought-reviser.

Indeed they are the most avid revisers, knocking an average 0.62% off the numbers.In contrast, funds with no need to beat past high-water marks typically inflated their first submissions by 0.4%, making them look more successful to prospective backers.

This explains Burgon's severe judgment that the revisers of the English New Testament (1881), in excluding what they believed to be scribal or editorial additions to the original text, "stand convicted of having deliberately rejected the words of Inspiration in every page" (The Revision Revised, p. vii, London, 1883).

Sometimes this is attributable not to spontaneous variation but to deliberate reworking, whether by the author, as appears to be the case with the three (or perhaps four) versions of the English poem Piers Plowman, or by later revisers, as with the four versions of Digenis Akritas (a Greek epic).

The Revisers, as they're sometimes called, argue that the drafts that have been mixed together need to be pulled apart, so that we can recover Shakespeare's "final intentions".