"He's the best self-editor I've ever known".
Angell has found him "a formidable self-editor.
He was a relentless self-editor, and therefore a slow writer.
A relentless self-editor, Duruflé (1902-1986) laborendlesslysly over the same few compositions, leading to a body of work that could practically fit on a postage stamp.
He was a slow, meticulous painter and a ruthless self-editor who destroyed many more pictures than he ever let out of the studio.
Hence his remark, meaningless except to insiders, about capital punishment's being "a great deterrent to monologues"; and so much for de Cordova's description of Carson as a supreme "self-editor" who never needed censorship).
A slight man wearing a plain gray T-shirt and khakis, Mr. Schmidt, 40, addresses his audience as a bumbling self-editor, beginning statements and taking them back for self-questioning or refinement halfway through.
Researchers have suggested that indirect error feedback is generally preferable because it forces students to engage in "guided learning and problem-solving" (Lalande, 1982) and helps them build skills as "independent self-editors" (Bates et al., 1993).
Teens accustomed to correcting messages before sending them become better self-editors.
Tarantino's a born writer, but he's not a born self-editor of his own writerly blab.
