Sentences with phrase «gloss over what»

The tonal shift is one thing, the eleventh - hour attempt to gloss over what's happened as something forgivable and perversely light - hearted is another altogether.

This doesn't happen very often, but when it does, I'm often harping on some minor detail that completely ruined the movie for me, whereas the average viewer may be able to gloss over what, for me, was a major pet peeve (I'm thinking What the Bleep, Whale Rider, and Madagascar, all of which grated on my nerves but which were often seen favorably outside of Movie Habit)

The Leave campaign may also like to gloss over what happened when leading Labour Out campaigner Kate Hoey was asked yesterday to name an independent study showing that Britain will be better off if we leave.

It's the people who are already seeing through the pathetic attempts to gloss over what the bible actually says who are seeking this kind of support, probably because they know that they can't trust what their pastors have to say.

And even in the occasional effort to draw a happy face on current trends, there is no glossing over what are still historically high rates of family breakup and unwed motherhood.

While I wanted to write, «I bought a dress and I'm wearing it,» that's glossing over what's really noteworthy about this little frock.

Seems like they glossed over what really happened..

You seem to have glossed over what I said... that making the emails that would provide a «corrected» perspective on the released emails available would be good for EVERYONE.

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So, the next time you see a colleague looking a little down, you might want to ask what's up instead of glossing over it.

The message that Christians live well, on average, is glossed over because that's the opposite of what the teachers think gets kids out of churches.

I think a lot of things could be glossed over in this story... what was the real relationship like between John and James, did Lucas» other church reject him or did Lucas do the rejecting, and how much shame from the parents had to do with that decision, the issue of race, the issue of disability... I'm a pessimist so I think of these things.

you keep glossing over this without answering it with more generalities and words — it's a basic question in response to what you posted

I've been reading the monastics recently, and it strikes me that while much of modern evangelicalism echoes their teachings on self - control and self - denial when it comes to sexuality, we tend to gloss over a lot what this great cloud of monastic witnesses has to say about self - control and self - denial in other areas of life — like materialism, food, relationships, and hospitality.

It's always best to read it on your own, without someone glossing over things and telling you what to think.

What a glossed over sorry excuse of an article.

What the Christian citizen may not do is to obey men rather than God, or overlook the degree of compromise in our best acts, or gloss over the sinfulness of war.

Don't misrepresent what I've said so you can gloss over selective responses on your part.

The post we read was basically her back - pedalling on what she had said to save face with the Exodus crowd, which was enough to convince me that she only wanted to separate from the bad image of Exodus but was still looking to run an ex-gay ministry with a pretty veneer to gloss over the harm caused by ex-gay ministries.

I encourage people to use their ability to discern what's actually being communicated in their church situations and not gloss things over with glorified expectations or wishful thinking or inordinate submission to authority.

What about all the other sins the church just glosses over like divorce and gluttony?

Most of what we see and read in books and magazines is hyped - up, glossed - over, air - brushed fiction.

(It also tends to gloss over the hard work of real people, like agents, editors, sales reps, marketing people, designers, and assistants whose gifts and creative energy make a lot of what we create possible.

In what follows I will show that the first assumption is clearly wrong and that the second assumption glosses over certain important distinctions Whitehead made about his doctrine of ingression.

Part of learning to love the Bible for what it is, not what we want it to be is resisting the temptation to either gloss over or glorify the culture in which these women lived and to instead allow their stories to speak for themselves.

What about the fact that the Bible stated the earth was round before Galileo ever made his discoveries... once again attesting to the divine nature of the Bible... address that... do not gloss over it.

At the same time, Piper's description of the New Calvinism as strongly complementarian glosses over recent trends within Presbyterianism that parallel what is happening within confessional Lutheranism.

The Bible tells us the prodigal spent his inheritance while he was away and while it's easy to gloss over that loss in the wayward son's restoration, we need to take a closer look at what that loss to the prodigal son actually cost.

«Go for it,» rejoined Bush, whose distilled account of what followed — «He did, and it was as simple as that» — glosses over Bush's central role in the play's outcome.

If you would re-read then you will find that I would prefer to get an out an out DM who has developed a reputation for being a DM, someone like Carvaliho... I did mention specialist DM which is what you seemed to have glossed over.

That sort of ability to look for any positives and to move on from a disappointment is a very important part of what the Czech Republic international brings to the team and perhaps that is what he was doing when he glossed over the part that Per Mertesacker played in the loss to our London rivals.

The truth is undoubtedly more interesting because lots of things are glossed over in terms of what I have been through.

I'm going to gloss over the next 6 minutes of what seemed like complete agony.

I certainly don't want to gloss over it — it should be investigated and what not (and I wish the media would have a similar vigor in investigating all perceived scandals for all government officials, present and future).

But if Vincent Kompany had not ducked under the dazzling Cristiano Ronaldo winning drive — a matter Mancini simply glossed over when asked about it — had Benzema been better marked and opposed who knows what might have happened.

Because worse than glossing over detail for you (but providing a clear course of action: take this test where you drink glucola), far worse is talking so far above someone's level of comprehension that they go home not understand what it is they are supposed to do.

He does not ignore Churchill's faults and failures, but is prone to gloss over and in some cases excuse what were colossal misjudgements.

Yet, political journalists and others that cover this industry often seem to gloss over exactly what microtargeting means.

Also Thursday, Rep. Eliot Engel (D - Bronx) told «Fox & Friends,» «What Secretary Kerry did was just beat up on Israel in a disproportionate way, sort of gloss over the terrorism the Palestinians have used all those years.

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What it does: With our high pigment lip glosses you can wear them alone or layer them over your favorite lipstick to create intense new colors.

What I have in mind is a soft white matte, see thru finish, (like you'd get with a stain) and then a semi gloss in same color over a paisley stencil.

What we basically have here is a glossed - over version of the game with very little addition and a $ 20 price drop, not to mention some horrible freezing problems that send this game to the showers.

While the respect oozes from Hamilton's former peers (with just a tinge of bitterness and resentment toward his popularizing a once - secret surfing spot), the man himself has more of an it - is - what - it - is approach to his accomplishments — glossing over heavier topics such as child abuse («it was just training») and even downplaying his own innovations («ideas come out of boredom»).

U-571's plot moves like a rocket, never pausing for breath, and this works to a point, but certain events (what happens to Keith's Major Coonan, for example) are glossed over in favor of more (exceptionally well - done) shots of exploding depth charges and topside battles.

Oliver Stone glosses over much of what makes him interesting in favor of focusing on Alexander's bisexuality.

What makes this acidic dramedy stand out is that it was brutally honest about the whole fiasco and didn't attempt to gloss over any of it.

I'll have to see what No Strings Attached is like; I think I did gloss over her on IMDb and just didn't take note of that... haha.

If anything, detail is what the film lacks, particularly when McDonald decides to gloss over the finer points of their process of getting to know each other by relegating their interactions to montages.

But all the polish can't gloss over one cold, hard fact: none of what the effects bring to life is the slightest bit scary.

He glosses over national policy and rarely examines the functions of state boards of education, district officials, and school principals, who all play a significant role in what products and services are adopted and used in schools.