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Example sentences for: shrift

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal gets short shrift; Social Security is "a kind of pyramid fraud, played on youth."
Some reviewers note that his personal life--if you can even say he had one--gets short shrift, and most say Frankel's time at the helm is not half as interesting as his flight from Germany in his childhood and his days as a young correspondent.
Amid all the Vatican’s treasures, the 15 rooms of the Picture Gallery (Pinacoteca Vaticana), in a separate wing of the palace, get short shrift.
To give short shrift to any of these three facets of communication is to tear apart the fabric of dialogue.
In a book so preoccupied with intellectual ancestries, Latin music seems to have gotten short shrift.