It provides teachers with a convenient way to use a laptop or a smartphone to give students immediate props for good behavior or to flag them for misbehaving, and makes it a whole lot easier for teachers and parents to communicate about the kind of critical behavioral and character stuff that can get short shrift given today's fascination with test scores. (educationnext.org)
It seems to me that 16 - bit RPGs on anything but the SNES have gotten short shrift from critics over the past 20 + years. (gameological.com)
Dufy, Marquet, and Van Dongen are given short shrift by modern curators while much that is merely pandering and gratuitously provocative gets attention and draws crowds. (booksteinprojects.com)