Sentences with phrase «gloss over the figures»

No matter how a publisher tries to gloss over the figures, there are huge profit margins in the sale of each e-book.

Not exact matches

Whether we are discussing the struggles of an entire nation such as Greece or following the political rumblings of a high - profile figure such as Donald Trump, we do more than simply gloss over news snippets.

This makes it easy to dig into details and figure out the technical details that other tax software systems gloss over.

You could try to figure out your odds of joining that statistic, but chances are your eyes will gloss over before you come up with the right number.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

The statement, and the figure selection, emphasizes the noise in the sea level curve's first derivative, and glosses over the facts that (1) the rate always is positive in that period, and also the fact that (2) the total amount of sea level rise over the last 114 years is comparable to the total amount over the previous two millennia.