Word: omit
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...N.R.A.'s atrocity stories typically omit details that might muddy its anti-ATF message. High on its list, for example, is the Randy Weaver case. In January 1991, ATF agents arrested Weaver for having sold two sawed-off shotguns to an ATF informant. Weaver was released on his own recognizance. When he failed to appear in court, a fugitive warrant was issued, and the case was passed to the U.S. Marshals Service, which caught up with Weaver in August 1992. A gunfight followed in which a deputy U.S. marshal and Weaver's 14-year-old son were killed...
Still, we shouldn't entirely omit academics from the lady's Greek life. As one sorority president pointed out, academics is one of Kappa Alpha Theta's "three aims," along with slumber parties and memorizing the Greek alphabet...
Fascinating, surprising -- even shocking. But accurate? With any survey, there is a risk that respondents will exaggerate, omit facts or otherwise fail to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Especially on sensitive subjects like sexual behavior. There is also the risk that the sample will not represent a fair cross section. Both of these problems have plagued earlier sex surveys, including the landmark reports issued by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and '50s. The team from the University of Chicago that produced the new study was determined to do better...
...director of Wyatt Earp, Lawrence Kasdan (he also wrote the screenplay with Dan Gordon), is obviously of the school that believes all inclusiveness is a reasonable trade-off for insight. Or maybe, like a lot of literary biographers these days, he can't bear to omit any of his research. But his approach prevents Wyatt Earp from developing a compelling dramatic arc, and it doesn't help a rather glum and withdrawn Kevin Costner make the eponymous protagonist into a dynamic or even very attractive figure. Mostly he is fate's pawn, grimly enduring one damn thing after another...
...order to reach his audience, Spielberg had to focus on some of the positive aspects of the Holocaust, namely an exciting story of heroism. But Spielberg does not fabricate anything, and he does not omit anything either. The movie graphically displays mass shootings, the liquidation of a Polish ghetto and the gas chambers at Auschwitz...