How To Use Shrift In A Sentence
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The rest of the sports library gets shorter shrift; judged collectively, sports books have been viewed as making the kind of contribution to literature that fig rolls have to gastronomy.
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Mr. Edsall gives short shrift to right-of-center positions about the virtues of free-market dynamism or deregulation.
A War of All Against All
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Another way Woods engages in card stacking is by giving short shrift to the true builder of Western Civilization: classical antiquity.
Is That Legal?: January 2006 Archives
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While referring to the laws of other jurisdictions, US courts have given them short shrift.
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It summoned the courage to try again but got the same short shrift as it tried to grab chicken necks left for the cat.
The Sun
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And the world number one gave one journalist short shrift when asked what was wrong with his game.
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Salt in medicine and nutrition, salt in chemistry, even salt in cooking are given short shrift.
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The wounded of the enemy, numbering eleven, would have met with but short shrift at the hands of their captors, but for the interposition of the man whom I have termed our timoneer, who seemed to be a petty chief.
A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story
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The presumption of innocence is given short shrift.
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She chooses whom she likes and interference from any official source would soon receive short shrift.
AT HOME WITH THE QUEEN: The Inside Story of the Royal Household
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Arantxa Sanchez Vicario made short shrift of her opponent, allowing her only two games in a 6-0, 6-2 demolition.
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Although they are given a sympathetic ear, others get short shrift.
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It summoned the courage to try again but got the same short shrift as it tried to grab chicken necks left for the cat.
The Sun
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Such healthier alternatives as low-fat cooking spray get short shrift.
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He also thought some ministries might be getting short shrift.
Christianity Today
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She got short shrift from her former colleagues.
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You could say that she's an incidental character here and given short shrift.
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they made short shrift of my request
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But an offering of a stuffed toy Santa was given short shrift.
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Once popular marxisant explanations of the causes of imperialism, on the other hand, receive short shrift.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".
Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62
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Though the film hints at the mighty struggle the Kers went through building Coorain, too much happens off-screen and too much is given short shrift.
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Let us give that short shrift.
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While he may be right, the thought would have received short shrift from the crowd yesterday.
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The effect has been to objectify these occupations and give short shrift to their mythologizers: at least to those who would see a mythos as crude as Confucianism.
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Illustration in this book gets short shrift.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Once popular marxisant explanations of the causes of imperialism, on the other hand, receive short shrift.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The Friars brotherly Companion, who had given sufficient enstructions to the Nurse, and a small purse full of Sisters white thred, which a Nunne (after shrift) had bestowed on him, upon the husbands admittance into the Chamber (which they easily heard) came in also to them, and seeing all in very good tearmes, they holpe to make a joyfull conclusion, the Brother saying to Friar Reynard: Brother, I have finished all those foure jaculatory prayers, which you commanded me.
The Decameron
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It summoned the courage to try again but got the same short shrift as it tried to grab chicken necks left for the cat.
The Sun
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IIRC, in both cases she wrote opinions which supported the lower court without addressing the major issues at debate, in short shrift memos.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor Rejects “Empathy” Standard for Judging:
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Many commanders with glittering reputations get equally short shrift.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As we stuff our faces we talk ramblingly about the politics of scientific funding especially ecology versus molecular biology, with ecology getting short shrift and about the sociopolitical challenge of conserving biological diversity.
The Song of The Dodo
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Then in short shrift within a year or so in the US Senate, he has decided he wants to be President.
Hillary Outraises Obama In Fourth Quarter Of 2007
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The older generation of stars who are'too macho' to bother with skincare get short shrift.
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But in short shrift, that may not matter any longer.
Sharmine Narwani: Kill the "Peace Game"
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They would have received very short shrift from anyone in our dressing-room.
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Audio budgets are often given short shrift, even as sound design becomes more critical in today's immersive titles.
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An averment that the blockade was lawful is likely to get short shrift in any Court potentially having jurisdiction other than in Israel.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
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Once, those who claimed to be victims of such crimes were given short shrift.
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On Mozart's funeral a spoil-sport historian once again gives short shrift to our cherished melancholic picture of a great man just heartlessly chucked into a hole.
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He has tried to talk to the club's hierarchy about preseason training for next season and been given very short shrift.
The Sun
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In a way, this weirdly understates the severity of institutional racism in the United States, since it implies that there were all these qualified minority jurists who were getting short shrift from the Oval Office.
Standing Pat
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Roberts is one of the current generation of female singers, who are still getting short shrift from the inherently sexist country radio format.
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This itself is interesting as it has been remarked upon by a number of scholars that, among the patriarchs, Isaac seems to have gotten short shrift literarily.
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He would have expected to receive short shrift if he had done anything like that in a snooker hall.
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Another element, to bring in external consultants for regular boardroom assessments, also gets short shrift.
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Humans who obstructed the war effort also received short shrift.
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Other proposals are given short shrift.
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And though the risotto is a bit oily, the lamb shank in the middle is served as such a tenderly appealing stew, the grains were bound to get short shrift.
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Lascivious desire, and no religious devotion, made him draw neere her, and whether under shrift (the onely cloake to compasse carnal affections) or some other as close conference to as pernitious and vile a purpose, I know not: but so farre he prevailed upon her frailety, and such a bargaine passed betweene them, that from the Church, he wonne her to his Chamber, before any person could perceive it.
The Decameron
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And of all activities they tend to get the shortest shrift in most organizations.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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Some experts worry that narrative enthusiasts, in their reluctance to "pathologize" people, will give their problems short shrift.
Rewriting Life Stories
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Above all, he liked working with conductors who were clear about their intentions - if not they would receive short shrift.
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For now it is focusing on music, movies, online video, and, in short shrift, TV.
Jerry Weinstein: First Look at Peter Gabriel's The Filter: A Discovery Engine for All Things
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff were on their way to find greener grass in a mountain saeter summer pasture, so no wonder the troll got short shrift.
Old English gods and myths: Eotens
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Barberio (Moncton) and Southorn (Prince Edward Island) are a pair of Quebec Leaguers who play for clubs out in the Maritimes and get short shrift from the scouting community at large.
Scouting the draft's top defensemen
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They gave her pretty short shrift despite her well-practised protestations.
The Priest
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Physical culture gets similar short shrift.
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He would have expected to receive short shrift if he had done anything like that in a snooker hall.
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pastimer"; that he has no literary quality; that he deserves at best to take his chance with the novelists from Sue to Gaboriau who have been or will be dismissed with rather short shrift elsewhere.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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News bureaus give it short shrift, as they do most federal agencies.
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Yet the suggestion that Hollywood can be a perilous place for young people is given short shrift.
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Antiwar activists shouldn't worry that their concerns will be given short shrift.
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I've always believed in the twin values of rationalism and humanism, but humanism has often felt as though it got short shrift in our community.
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Characters and events from the less fashionable end of the Hartnell and Troughton eras get pretty short shrift (eg the entry in volume 2 for Ping-Cho, whch reads, in its entirety, "Chinese girl").
Four BF audios
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As the US and western powers tool up to tackle this new threat, civil liberties will receive very short shrift.
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If you ask a legal aid lawyer what his or her commitment to pro bono is, you are likely to receive short shrift.
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He would have expected to receive short shrift if he had done anything like that in a snooker hall.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has tried to talk to the club's hierarchy about preseason training for next season and been given very short shrift.
The Sun
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Both were given relatively short shrift.
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