Yet his story, like several of the others, glosses over the meatiest part: the redemption.

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The New York Times article glosses over this second, crucial issue of potential false positives.

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She devotes dozens of pages to Mr Paulson's rise in the hedge-fund industry, but glosses over his poor performance in 2011.

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Mr Ackerman also glosses over the fact that vigorous protection of civil liberties is a political issue as much as a legal one.

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In fact marginalia have a distinguished history, going back to the scholarly glosses and rubrics for which room was specially left in early manuscripts and, after them, in the first printed books.

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These twin virtues are apparent in the middle third of this life, which lightly glosses over Friedman's most celebrated insights, such as his refutation of the bleak notion that capitalism is doomed to underconsumption, and his reassessment of the Great Depression.

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While we should all applaud big companies that are reducing the social and environmental damage of their practices and products, the article glosses over the two biggest questions and it simultaneously maligns one of the most innovative companies in the sustainable business space, Method home products.

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She glosses over their male counterparts who, to be sure, are having similar struggles to find employment in their chosen fields amidst ongoing layoffs and the snails-paced rate of job growth, and instead focuses on the over-achieving class of females who now collect more higher education degrees than our male classmates.

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