Word: glossing
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...Friel implies this lighthearted gloss constitutes not a denial of the reality, but just as necessary a component. Indeed, he begs the question: isn't the perception just as, if not more, real than the reality? The sisters' uncle, Father Jack, embodies this sentiment. For 25 years, Father Jack worked as a Catholic missionary in Africa, earning himself a folk-hero status in the ardently religious community. Finally, his superiors send him home, ostensibly due to his poor health. But when he settles in with his nieces to recuperate, it gradually dawns on them that he was ejected from...
...government once tried to gloss over the shortages, but not any longer. The money is simply not there: budget allocations for health care in 1993 were one-third the $300 million spent in 1989, a gap that will hardly be bridged by an expected $30 million worth of humanitarian donations from abroad. "If you go to a medical center, you will see how conditions have deteriorated," says Public Health Vice Minister Ramon Diaz Vallina. In many cases, diagnostic equipment stands idle for lack of spare parts and readout paper. Mammograms were cut back last year because of chronic...
...arguments presented above are not meant to be ethnocentric, but to reflect the reality we face. The experience of, for example, Asian Americans in this country is in many ways different from that of other groups--to gloss this over or to shove it to the margins of academia is to deny reality. Therefore studying the origins and significance of this difference is important, not only for Asian Americans but for the betterment of the larger society. And professors of color, by virtue of having experienced marginalization, can offer important insights that other professors often miss...
...sophistication and insight to the songs she sings. Aware of her own musicianship, she says that the contributions of women jazz singers are not properly recognized. "People like Billie Holiday, Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, have revolutionized not just vocalese but jazz itself," she says. "There is a tendency to gloss over what female singers bring to jazz...
Damascus Nights heaves with charming characters, gripping tales, and local color. The reader can't but enjoy the down-to-earth, homespun appearance of its simple stories. But the novel has a calculated air of Oriental gloss; you can't escape the feeling that Schami is secretly laughing at you for lapping it up. The Thousands Night and a Night appeals precisely because it reveals a different narrative culture unself-consciously; Damascus Nights has been deliberately pre-packaged for Western audiences...