Sentence examples for trim the text from inspiring English sources
We acknowledge that this is only possible with eLife given that the printed journals normally demand to trim the text.
In trimming the text, they also rob it of much of its texture.
He trimmed the text and, echoing the traditional response people knew, "miserere nobis", and the commendatio for the sick, called on God to "have mercy upon us miserable sinners".
Instead of rewriting and trimming the text, Mr. Brush, a professor of science history at the University of Maryland, compromised with the publisher by agreeing to post his 100-page bibliography online.
But the play lacks a big, governing idea; and, although Christopher Luscombe's production sensibly trims the text, I find it hard to forgive the omission of the crucial coda in which a modern doctor reminds us that the king was really suffering from a metabolic disorder.
In trimming the text he has sliced away some of Jimmy's tirades against the ossified social and economic system, including an attack on Alison's friend Helena (Charlotte Parry) that is full of economic metaphors and references to "forgotten shares in the old traditions" and a "big crash" on the way.
As was also the case with "Don Carlos," Ms. Edwards has judiciously "adapted" the script, which is to say she has trimmed it (the text is long) but transposed no scenes and done no rewriting.
His previous production at the National was Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, which lasts around five hours, although Godwin's trimming of the text and whipping of the pace reduced it to under four in performance and, although the NT website for Man and Superman somewhat ominously notes that "running time will be announced by the first preview", his hope is to do the Shaw in three and a half.
