(linguistics) the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking OR the act or an instance of omitting something
a star must always elide questions concerning the political and social causes behind the lack of opportunity and infrastructural development in the so-called inner city
on "inner city youth" in mainstream contemporary American sports stories
the steady process of elision
What has long shocked some readers of the Frankfurt School is the apparent blitheness with which they elided Hitlerian fascism, Stalinist communism and Roosevelt’s America
he implies that when it came to the Nazis, they didn't really care about the capitalism element as much as they cared about their own personal lives being more difficult (as Jewish intellectuals)
horror films created ambiguity and possible elision by putting ? after THE END
the substitutions and elisions made by the mediated unconscious
what is remarkable about the market-democracy metaphor is its elision of an obvious fact of literal marketplaces: they are by definition unequal
'symptomatic' places in the dream-text--distortions, ambiguities, absences and elisions
Perhaps they had been evasive, had elided distinct positions, and perhaps that had confused some audiences.
'queer' was about emphasising rather than eliding difference
This whole herd of poets—all but Dickinson classically educated—operates on elision and emotional reserve.
Too often the distinction is elided between a simplistic notion of direct effects [...] and a more nuanced understanding of the relationship
their hyperbolic excesses and elisions are blatantly obvious to the people whom they are professing to speak for
the triumphal liberal history of modern conflict, which consecrates itself by touting its defeat of totalitarianism, and elides anti-fascism in all of its guises by presenting it as, in one way or another, unitary with fascism
the usual manner in which contemporary criticism elides the question of authorial intention