Word: glossing
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Nevertheless, the book is filled with less-than-rosy incidents from Britain’s imperial history. Indeed, Ferguson does not gloss over the exploitation, violence and racism that lay at the empire’s heart. Instead, by offering a wider perspective, Ferguson forces a reconsideration of the empire’s legacy. Although British ships did transport three million African slaves to the New World, it was the British government decided to abolish slavery and “to sweep the…seas of the atrocious commerce.” Brazil, Portugal and Spain all abolished slavery...
...only is director Justin Lin’s film a complex, exhilarating exploration of issues that movies often gloss over—teen violence, for example—it’s also the first Asian-American film to be chosen by the Sundance Film Festival and the first to be distributed by MTV Films...
...less lustrous, but that actually proves the genius behind the festival. Co-founders Jane Camens and Nury Vittachi, both literary-minded journalists, envisioned cosmopolitan Hong Kong as the perfect center in which to showcase "great writing with Asian roots," a category that can include just about anything with a gloss of soy sauce: expats writing Asia-based historical fiction, hyphenated Asians getting back to their roots, nonfiction writers discovering the region. Not to mention the proliferating literary output from the other side of the border with mainland China. Asian books are hot in the literary capitals of New York...
...these syllabi inevitably contain the section entitled “Course Requirements and Grading.” Normally the temptation is to gloss over this portion, with only the briefest of asides to one’s neighbor—“No midterm: I’m in” or “A paper during reading period: see you later.” Alas, while scanning the particulars of the class’s requirements, rarely do we challenge the overwhelming assumption on which the grades are divvied up. For the mistaken—if understandable?...
...just one manifestation of our deluded expectations that Saddam will not actually use these weapons. Our optimism lets us treat these weapons as distant, hypothetical dangers—reasons to invade Iraq—without considering them real and immediate threats to American soldiers. If Americans think they can gloss over the threat from chemical and biological weapons, then it seems the war against Iraq will bring a very difficult surprise...