Kirkus Reviews states that true to Angelou's style, her writing "cuts to the chase with compression and simplicity", and that it contains a "calypso smoothness, flurries and showers of musicality between the moments of wickedness".
Elsewhere, as strings sigh, flicker or slash, Pergolesi's spare writing cuts to the core of the text.
Burroughs started by cutting off the little finger of his left hand, and ended writing cut-up poetry, a collage of the paper scraps of other writings.
But quite possibly, he might also be writing cut scenes for adventure games.
In the current complex economic context, she writes, cuts are inevitable but "we are working to minimize the damage".
Inevitably, The New Yorker and Wired, where Lehrer also wrote, cut their ties with him.
The Antarctic expedition, Wheeler writes, "cut like a canyon between Cherry's childhood and the rest of his life".
(Mr. Irving has credited the doctor and professor who wrote "Cutting for Stone," his friend Abraham Verghese, for helping provide details about the illness).
As Ionesco succinctly, brutally wrote: "Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless".
As a joke, I had drawn a blue arrow on my right side and written "cut here" -- just so there was no mistake.
Moroder took her seriously, adapted a chorus she'd written, cut the track and brought her in for the fateful vocal session.
