Word: glossing
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...Know By Jessica Simpson; available now With its pat narratives, modern country excels at masking a lack of depth with a high gloss of feeling. So, good career move! Simpson navigates her twangy debut without incident until Dolly Parton shows up for a duet, clears her throat and reminds us to stop grading on a curve...
...direction, other avenues inevitably close. Obama's decision to pursue this convention strategy meant that he would not build those pillars - because people can agree on throwing the bums out while disagreeing on what exactly they want instead. To unite the whole range of dissatisfied voters, he must gloss over topics that might divide them...
...phenomenon has an ugly side, of course - jingoistic youth who can't understand why some Chinese or Koreans might continue to be miffed about comfort women or experiments with bubonic plague, particularly since Japanese textbooks still have a propensity to gloss over such wartime atrocities. But in an ex-imperialist country whose identity was so shattered that it ended up adopting peace as a national virtue - during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics flocks of dove-shaped balloons were released into the air, underlining the not-so-subtle point that Japan wasn't about to declare war anytime soon - the return...
...This University is damned good at marketing itself to its alumni and to the world. Graduates give generously, comforted by the knowledge that their gifts support the work of the world’s greatest university, whose triumphs make the realities of Harvard College easy to gloss over. Recent events suggest that this university is failing to make the one sales pitch that its history and its future demand the most—to its own undergraduates
...McCain's second objective is to rub some of the shiny gloss off Obama and encourage voters to see the presumptive Democratic nominee for what, Republicans say, his record shows he is - a conventional liberal proposing conventionally liberal solutions to the nation's problems. "The wrong change looks not to the future but to the past for solutions that have failed before and will surely fail us again," McCain said Tuesday. "I have a few years on my opponent, so I am surprised that a young man has bought in to so many failed ideas. Like others before...