In a later scene, the writers underscored the point, showing Lydia in bed, pale and sickly as Walter explains to her over the telephone that he poisoned her drink at the diner.
That quote from the American writer David Foster Wallace underscores one of the great lessons of life: There are plenty of people smarter than you, and you need to learn from them.
Tampering with a writer's words underscores both editors' extraordinary hubris and a cavalier attitude embraced by more and more people in this day of mash-ups, sampling and digital books -- the attitude that all texts are fungible, that readers are entitled to alter as they please, that the very idea of authorship is old-fashioned.
It is a novel that illustrates just how far Ms. Moore has come in the last two and half decades from her keenly observed but jokey 1985 collection of stories, "Self-Help," which showcased her gifts as a writer but also underscored her — and her characters' — emotional reticence, their reluctance to open themselves to deeply felt experiences.
A Feb. 28 letter writer is correct in underscoring the central importance of the therapeutic relationship.
TO call Philip K. Dick, whose 1954 story "The Minority Report" is the basis for the new Steven Spielberg movie, a science-fiction writer is to the underscore the inadequacy of the label.
The growing unhappiness among longtime GOP check-writers and party elders underscores the deepening divisions over the ascendant tea party wing, which fueled this past week's shutdown and is demanding Democratic concessions in exchange for reopening the government and raising the nation's debt limit.
A number of singers, writers and artists underscored that gratitude was instrumental to "get something" even more valuable in return, to feed their creativity.
Finally, Mr. Isegawa could call himself a writer, a feeling that was underscored during his visit to the United States.
He will underscore the oboe in the writer's case.
More important, it underscores the unique bond these writers have with one another.
