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Example sentences for: shrift

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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.
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 ...”
To give short shrift to any of these three facets of communication is to tear apart the fabric of dialogue.
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.
2) The court ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act bans discrimination against people who carry the AIDS virus . The media spun this as a triumph of compassion, giving short shrift to the broader implications of the court's expansion of "disabilities" to include reproductive troubles.