Example sentences of "glossed over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading lights of the service sector , headed by Racal , could produce results that go some way towards alleviating the gloomy economic prospects again this week , even if Friday 's poor inflation figure ca n't be glossed over . |
| 2 | Several other players , most notably Mo Johnston and Paul McStay had performed well below expectation but they were not keepers and somehow their footballing impotence was glossed over . |
| 3 | For me , however , the performance is a revelation , unearthing a vast amount of inner detail that is usually glossed over in other recordings . |
| 4 | As a production of the Ministry of Town Planning much of its message clearly trespassed on the domain of the Ministry of Transport , so that it was scarcely surprising that some intractable transport problems were glossed over in the euphoria for a brave new world . |
| 5 | They know the truth : that life with an aged parent can be a strange mixture of joy and sorrow , and all they ask is for that fact to be accepted , not glossed over by their family and society , and then to be offered some practical ideas on how to make the best of a good job , which they consider to be well worth doing . |
| 6 | Consequently the chapter is for the benefit of those with a critical interest in homoeopathy and may conveniently be glossed over by those with a less scientific turn of mind . |
| 7 | But he was also a complex , highly secretive individual whose inner workings and motivations are profoundly glossed over in this film . |
| 8 | We know , and they know , that if we were not on the project , in the meeting , or in any way involved , the issue of sexuality would simply be entirely glossed over . |
| 9 | The descent through the forest is best glossed over . |
| 10 | Wyllie 's limitation as a coach , which had become obvious in 1988 , were glossed over while he and his team were winning . |
| 11 | Cultural and educational inequalities based on economic inequality are a reality which needs to be revealed and not glossed over by a populist notion of art for the people . |
| 12 | One important implication of this must be emphasised , which we have glossed over until now : in the same way that there is no single pattern of development of sociology , so there is no single sociological perspective . |
| 13 | If childlessness is ‘ glossed over ’ and the couple adopt , they may feel insecure about their right to be parents when they have failed to have their own baby , which can lead to a poor relationship with a child . |
| 14 | They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men . |
| 15 | The ugly fact that if women are ultimately shut out of the industry , organisation and better conditions will be of no use to them , has been carefully glossed over " . |
| 16 | The loftier tone of these words blends with a certain tendency to affectation ( the gallicism gants de Suede ) , and to euphemism ( payment is referred to by terms and remuneration , the child 's ill-health is glossed over in the noun weakness and the negative phrase " not robust " ) . |
| 17 | The third section offers a critical exploration of possible starting points for new strategies , not least by looking anew at some of the difficult and resilient questions about cultural identity and belongingness , about ethnicity and community , that were often glossed over or disavowed in the antiracist movement . |
| 18 | But first there was the other thing , which we seemed to be glossing over and which could n't be glossed over . |
| 19 | Nizan " communist allegiances can not consequently be glossed over , however significant his ultimate break from the party might be . |
| 20 | Inadequacies were glossed over and the focus of attention became the necessary defence of the revolutionary Soviet state , the guardian protector of peace , freedom and equality , currently threatened by a barbaric and expansionist fascist state . |
| 21 | What is usually glossed over is the fact that , in the process , democracy came to be " liberalised " in that its radical and egalitarian ideals were softened so that , in practice , democratic politics worked within the prevailing system of power in economy and society . |
| 22 | The greater abundance of mare basalts on the maria , their smaller ages than most highland rocks , the possibility of deriving the highland type rocks and the mare basalts from a common source material in the mantle , and many other compositional relationships , are glossed over in an unsatisfactory manner . |
| 23 | Erm it would normally be glossed over in about three minutes . |
| 24 | Otto is dealt with in five lines and the fact that a majority of the princes had elected Philip is glossed over . |
| 25 | Again , however , the potential for conflict is glossed over . |
| 26 | Keynes 's refutation of this theory as a description of labour market behaviour in a money using economy , and this formulation of a theory of labour market adjustment which was more appropriate to such an economy , have been glossed over by Friedman and his followers as if they were nothing more than minor , rather idiosyncratic footnotes in the history of economic ideas . |
| 27 | The process through which an increase in the supply of money has an almost simultaneous and direct impact on prices and demand on all islands is glossed over as if it were a matter of trifling importance . |