| We cannot gloss over the deadly competition over resources that are generating tensions in many parts of Africa. |
| But at the same time, our hero-worship of fiction allows us to gloss over, or even embrace, certain issues we would do best to scrutinise a little more discerningly. |
| But human rights are not trifling matters and the EU, if it is to remain true to its founding principles, must not gloss over such matters. |
| The film doesn't gloss over the violent nature of the drugs industry, but its sympathetic portrait of the mules is quietly provocative. |
| If anything, this is a lively book that doesn't bog the reader down in minutia, or gloss over important details. |
| Tuesday's session before the Gafsa Court of Appeals was the judicial gloss over an injustice. |
