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Example sentences for: shrift

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The media spun this as a setback to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr (who was seeking notes from Vince Foster's lawyer), giving short shrift to the decision's broader ramifications for old folks.
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.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal gets short shrift; Social Security is "a kind of pyramid fraud, played on youth."
Professor Spevack makes short shrift of the lengthy debate over Hamlet's I know a hawk from a handsaw (II, 2).
Does women's fiction get short shrift?