The central trope is reinvention: how Malcolm Little constantly reworked himself and how commentators and iconographers have repeatedly revised him.
If the villain in your fairytale isn't evil and threatening enough, you might need to revise him.
Revising for him wasn't just an afterthought but an essential part of the creative process, and in a sense none of his poems were ever truly finished.
Special problems are posed by an author's second thoughts, whether preserved in his books and papers or incorporated in editions revised by him; recent research has shown that authorial revision in modern printed books has been underestimated.
He has been left simply to sell the plan, which is rapidly being revised with him out of town.
At the same time, there was limited pleasure in it for him, revising sentences in his dreams, a few flashes of short-lived satisfaction, that's all.
The life of an archaeologist seems glamorous in Indiana Jones, but that's because there are no scenes of him revising 30-page research articles about tertiary religious ceremonies in ancient Sumeria for an editing review with an academic journal so he can get tenure.
Seventeen years later, after his fame had brought renewed glory to the Albee name, he reconnected with his imperious mother, but when she died, in 1989, he discovered that she had revised her will, removing him as her primary heir and eliminating him as a trustee of her estate.
In 1861 Kentucky governor Beriah Magoffin appointed Buckner adjutant general, promoted him to major general, and charged him with revising the state's militia laws.
The company does "not necessarily agree with the factual positions" taken by Mr. Ford and is in talks with him about revising the terms, according to yesterday's statement.
