Sentence examples for the long draft from inspiring English sources

The scandals in the long draft — some of it, set in Italy during Kane's youth, startlingly like material that came to the screen twenty years later in "La Dolce Vita" — served a purpose beyond crowd pleasing: to show what a powerful man could cover up and get away with.

Mankiewicz's pastiche was fully worked out in the first long draft of the script, the processed prose and epigrams already honed to perfection ("For forty years appeared in Kane newsprint no public issue on which Kane papers took no stand. No public man whom Kane himself did not support or denounce — often support, then denounce").

Though Rosebud was in the long first draft, it didn't carry the same weight there, because the newspaper business itself undermined Kane's idealism.

Welles was so deeply entangled in the radio shows and other activities and a romance with Dolores Del Rio at the time the script was being prepared that even when he came to dinner at Victorville, it was mainly a social visit; the secretary didn't meet him until after Mankiewicz had finished dictating the long first draft.

The long awaited draft report from the independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Board (PCLOB) on this subject was finally released Tuesday night, and it gives Americans a fairly detailed look unclassified at how the NSA spies through its notorious Prism program – and how it snoops "upstream" (a euphemism for the agency's direct access to entire internet streams at telecoms like AT&T).

In Mankiewicz's original conception, in the long first-draft "American," which ran three hundred and twenty-five pages, that device is more clearly integral to the theme.

While Patrick retreated to the inside line, the others were in long drafting lines, bumper-to-bumper at a hundred and eighty-five miles an hour.

The long-awaited draft proposals for the revised primary curriculum have provoked some predictable outcries about a back to the 50s agenda denying teachers autonomy.