Sentence examples for reviser of 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).

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

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

Just a few weeks back, Will described him in a column as "a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate".

But he was also a prodigious reviser of his interpretations, according to scholars, leading him sometimes to acquire four or five copies of a score to note his ideas freshly each time.

The columnist George F. Will has disparaged Mr. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, as a "recidivist reviser of his principles," so uninspiring to his party that he might become the Republican version of Michael S. Dukakis.

Despite the fathoms that separate them, McAfee makes much sport of the parallels between the two journalists, who are both obsessive revisers of their own material.

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).

But there are many, more common ways for poets to achieve that end: keep the poems a secret (like Dickinson) or, if you let them out, go and ransack them every so often, the way Auden and, later, Robert Lowell, energetic revisers of their own work, did.

The album helped establish Mr. Zenón as one of the important contemporary revisers of Latin jazz and spread his reputation for delivering excellent music from a complicated premise, a reputation that reached the secret committees of the MacArthur Foundation, which awarded him one of its $500,000 "genius" grants in September.

To those of you who still live, having lost so much: I appeal to you not be discouraged by the naysayers, the deniers of the genocide and revisers of our history.