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Example sentences for: shrift

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Professor Spevack makes short shrift of the lengthy debate over Hamlet's I know a hawk from a handsaw (II, 2).
Tito and Yugoslavia get disappointingly short shrift in Gaddis' analysis, as does Stalin's still mysterious decision to pull out of the Soviet-administered sector of northern Iran.
But Richard Alan Ryerson, in the New York Times Book Review , faults Maier for giving short shrift to the document's philosophical underpinnings.
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.
Because general dictionaries either omit proper names altogether or, if they are included, give them short etymological shrift, Room's book deserves to stand on the shelf alongside the best dictionaries in a reader's library.