Shrift Sentence Examples

Such thieves as refused to work with him received short shrift.

By contrast, the female actors seem to get short shrift, with few good lines to rise up to.

But why do the tenors always get such short shrift?

A Chinese attempt to enter the US energy sector was given very short shrift by the US Congress only a couple of months ago.

This has been given short shrift by both politicians and IT experts.

Moreover, socio-economic and class issues tend to get short shrift, reflecting a scarcity of research in this field.

However, they received short shrift from the House of Lords.

Cambridge made short shrift of them on the outside of bends.

The court gave the argument short shrift, leaving the tenant to repent at leisure his having acted in haste.

But in the case of Early Christian sarcophagi the iconographic connections of portraits to either visual context or survivors receive short shrift.

Thus the " lazy yawning drone," as Shakespeare puts it, has a short shrift when his usefulness to the community is ended.

The Caps had short shrift, and the joint note which the Russian, Prussian and Danish ministers presented to the estates protesting, in menacing terms, against any " reprisals " on the part of the triumphant faction, only hastened the fall of the government.