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Example sentences for: shrift

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To give short shrift to any of these three facets of communication is to tear apart the fabric of dialogue.
Fowler gave short shrift to those who would split hairs over split infinitives; but I feel fairly sure that even he would draw the line at a phrase like, “To be or to not be ...”
Professor Spevack makes short shrift of the lengthy debate over Hamlet's I know a hawk from a handsaw (II, 2).
In a book so preoccupied with intellectual ancestries, Latin music seems to have gotten short shrift.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal gets short shrift; Social Security is "a kind of pyramid fraud, played on youth."