"That was me, the lonely hunker-down type," he tells us, in an opening voice-over, glossing a shot of himself as a clerk in a video store.
When traditional methods of glossing fail in bringing out the essence of articles by ancient writers, it would be advisable to resort to the semantic field and lexical context.
We could talk for days about strategic avoidance, glossing over, side-stepping, and myriad other ways to re-frame a lie as something middling. Let’s not.
The constitutional tenor of his speech weighed on him like a sin; he sought an opportunity of glossing it over.
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