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gloss over
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  • Yet this Fremen reaction and the obvious element of the Arrakeen diet high in spice were glossed over by Bene Gesserit observers.†  (source)
  • However, my dear, I may have glossed over an item that was extremely helpful in negotiations with my client.†  (source)
  • I saw us as equals, but in doing so, perhaps I glossed over the things she could not overlook.†  (source)
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  • She appreciated the uses of Benjamin's wealth, but preferred to gloss over the sources of it.†  (source)
  • I glossed over the beginning, skipping the motorcycles and the voices, but telling her everything else right up to today's misadventure.†  (source)
  • Observe how ingenuously he underlines certain words, and how crudely he glosses over his hidden thoughts.†  (source)
  • Her way of glossing over the transaction with Trenor he regarded at once as a tribute to his own acuteness, and a confirmation of his suspicions.†  (source)
  • I'd started to read stories in the newspapers differently, to not just gloss over them, but to try and really understand what was happening, if there was any way I could help.†  (source)
  • He once asked me to tell him about my African trip and I simply glossed over it.†  (source)
  • From my insider's vantage point, I recognized the attempts to gloss over the real reasons these dogs were back on the market.†  (source)
  • As she talked about Peter, I had the disturbing thought that maybe he was one suspect we had glossed over too quickly.†  (source)
  • His mind would gloss over everything that had happened.†  (source)
  • In their autobiographies, they recounted great races in intimate detail, but falls and injuries were glossed over with the most perfunctory language.†  (source)
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I'm ugly crying, describing the moment when the shots rang out and Khalil looked at me for the last time; how I held him in the street and saw his eyes gloss over.  (source)
gloss over = become cloudy
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