Glosses

The impression I get from these cultural glosses is that this is a more normal part of Arab political culture – like booing, I guess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The phrase glosses over the fact that this was captured in a defensive war against outside aggression. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's indie rock, obviously, but that label glosses over the fact that there are subtle elements of experimental jazz, little snippets of electronica, the occasional wayward classical instrument, and a surprising love for old-timey melodies to be found drifting about in their musical landscape. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is the age of great Bibles and of "glosses" -- single books or groups of books of the Bible equipped with a marginal and interlinear comment ❋ Unknown (1899)

Some people consider "bushmeat" a euphemism that glosses over the killing of gorillas, chimpanzees and other primates for food. ❋ Erin McKean (2011)

Chart consumer prices and economic activity of BRICS nations compared with the U.S. The group's simple moniker glosses over the fact that its members are vastly different. ❋ Owen Fletcher (2011)

Some of the margin notes, called glosses, may have been unread for years, said Sarah Jane Murray, assistant professor of medieval literature and French at Baylor University. ❋ Unknown (2007)

While vaudeville managers may seem content to book an act that is not of the very first rank, because it is played by someone whose ability and whose name glosses over its defects, they do not encourage such offerings by long contracts. ❋ Brett Page (N/A)

These translations, sometimes bearing upon entire passages, more often upon single words, were called glosses, Hebrew laazim ❋ Liber, Maurice (1906)

A grave in Irish is Sid, the disembodied spirit is Sidhe, and this latter word glosses Tuátha De Danan. ❋ Standish O'Grady (1887)

Soldierly Methods: Vade Mecum for an Iconoclastic Translation of Sun Zi bingfa, with a complete transcription and word-for-word glosses of the Manchu translation by H. T. Toh ❋ Unknown (2009)

Manuscript pages contain "glosses" in the margins and between the lines. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think saying they were synonymous with corruption in Ontario kind of glosses over the point they were also synonymous with corruption in British Columbia ... ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Fathers were influential partly through their originalia (i.e., their original writings in their complete text), but perhaps more through extracts included in "glosses" on the Bible and in anthologies and through extensive quotations made by later writers. ❋ Kilcullen, John (2006)

And if we get away with it, I mean, if it's just like we can pretend nothing ever happened, then -- and it kind of glosses over, then you teach them, hey, that works. ❋ Unknown (2002)

They synopsized their teaching in "glosses", interlinear at first, then marginal, or they composed separate treatises known as "Apparatus", "Summae", ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

I think some of the hoopla kind of glosses over the fact that that's a real historic event that we just experienced and I was just so privileged to be part of it. " ❋ Unknown (2010)