Definition of "glossing" []

• Present participle of gloss. (verb)

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• "The superficiality is downright dangerous, I think, in glossing over the fact that you can suppress theistic religion and end up with worse racism — c.f. anti-semitism in Soviet Russia — because atheistic ideologies can function in exactly the same way to create exactly the same type of “bad thinking”."
• "The very people who could be counted on to slow the public down and (try to) make them reasonable about the complex identity of a Tiger Woods or a Halle Berry, suddenly had a personal stake in glossing over the complexity of Obama's identity."
• "Taking the life of a game animal is no small thing, and I fail to see the merit in glossing over that fact Well said."