How To Use Gloss over In A Sentence

  • Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
  • Should we gloss over them as proof of the power of suggestion to treat psychosomatic illness?
  • If anything, this is a lively book that doesn't bog the reader down in minutia, or gloss over important details.
  • Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
  • But to impose today's sensibilities can gloss over historical facts. The Times Literary Supplement
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  • Historians have tended to gloss over the extent to which New Deal regulatory programs, especially minimum wage laws, prounion legislation, and the Agricultural Adjustment Acts, were pursued at the expense of African Americans. The Volokh Conspiracy » Chicago Defender on the New Deal’s National Industrial Recovery Act:
  • When something about the magic act goes wrong, a glib tongue and a humorous manner can do much to gloss over the slip so that people do not notice that anything is amiss.
  • None of this can quite gloss over the fact that Spain had so many key players missing. Times, Sunday Times
  • You gloss over the fact that the AP - no matter how they obtained the material - violated their agreement with S&S to embargo the story until the date of publication.
  • But human rights are not trifling matters and the EU, if it is to remain true to its founding principles, must not gloss over such matters.
  • Depending who is in the relivant office at the time, either a pro-choicer could gloss over dangers or a pro-lifer could exagerate even very unlikely or purely hypothetical dangers in the hope of scareing women away from abortion. ProWomanProLife » Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plains
  • Both Democrats and Whigs wanted to gloss over sectional differences and cement party loyalties, not divide the country.
  • Not to gloss over a comprehensive and really well-illustrated history, but I was most interested in his characterisation of the shifting relationship between humans and machines.
  • Obviously the players in this case have so little respect for the intelligence of the public, that they think that they can hoodwink us, tell us anything that comes to mind, and then gloss over it.
  • But to impose today's sensibilities can gloss over historical facts. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Should we gloss over them as proof of the power of suggestion to treat psychosomatic illness?
  • Colourful big-name cameos gloss over some political dodginess. This week's new films
  • Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
  • But thankfully, history is also written by historians rather than self-serving spin doctors and political hacks who want to gloss over their own outrages and claim some higher purpose.
  • And the film, while it suffers from a lack of coherence and focus, has enough brutally perceptive and hilarious moments to gloss over the rough edges. Times, Sunday Times
  • Official histories tend to gloss over this state of affairs or, more commonly, ignore it altogether, an understandable myopia. SAN ANDREAS
  • Downing Street last night tried to gloss over Lord Butler's scathing, but tactfully phrased verdict on its shambolically informal style of government.
  • Are these non-issues or something John would prefer to gloss over?
  • Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
  • Let us gloss over the fact that one of those convicted for exposing her name is his own cousin. Times, Sunday Times
  • Both the initial trial and the appeal hearing appeared to gloss over quite serious inconsistencies in the evidence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Why highlight the tragic demise of one woman, and gloss over the deaths of the 14 men?
  • None of this can quite gloss over the fact that Spain had so many key players missing. Times, Sunday Times
  • And the film, while it suffers from a lack of coherence and focus, has enough brutally perceptive and hilarious moments to gloss over the rough edges. Times, Sunday Times
  • The film doesn't gloss over the violent nature of the drugs industry, but its sympathetic portrait of the mules is quietly provocative.
  • Some try to gloss over weak programming with slick packaging.
  • Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
  • I can't honestly say that I managed to see - or hear - the entire movie, interrupted as it was by various small bouncing yelling things but what I did see was amusing enough, if somewhat overinclined to gloss over the reality of the predator/prey relationship, give far too much credit to sushi, and continue to uphold the charming concept that the animals in zoos not only love being there but plan to perform for the crowds. Forgot to mention:
  • The wry performances of the leads gloss over the trite machinations of the plot. The Sun
  • A person , who is imperious and tries to gloss over his fault, is bound to suffer in the end.
  • Let us gloss over the fact that one of those convicted for exposing her name is his own cousin. Times, Sunday Times
  • The goat articles were OK in getting one interested in goats, but you did gloss over how difficult it can be to rent or borrow a billy for breeding.
  • Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.
  • Notably, the word ‘challenge’ was used as a euphemism to gloss over the existence of serious problems.
  • But those weasel phrases get tiresome after a while, and people do tend to gloss over them; and, hey, I'm always interested in finding more gnarly ideas to take apart and play with; so I thought that even if I am going to blather away with my own jazz riffs on what I understand Todorov or Clute to be saying -- to grab these basic themes wherever I find them, see if I can play them back by ear, and if they sound right run with that, rephrasing them and putting them through the conversions, inversions and reversions of my own twisty, turny logic -- well, more grist for the mill is always fun. Freeform Critique
  • If it hopes that, by avoiding any mention of the fact that our troops are being asked to patrol in dangerously inadequate vehicles, the media will gloss over the details – thus letting the Ministry of the hook – it is probably right. Again… and again
  • This is something that those who wish to obfuscate the origins of our current conflicts with extremists tend to gloss over or ignore.
  • She tried to gloss over her mistakes
  • Depending who is in the relivant office at the time, either a pro-choicer could gloss over dangers or a pro-lifer could exagerate even very unlikely or purely hypothetical dangers in the hope of scareing women away from abortion. ProWomanProLife » Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plains
  • Some foreign governments appear happy to gloss over continued human rights abuses.

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