Michael Morpurgo

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

English Author

Jessica Biel

On the red carpet, I'm playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing, I think, 'Oof, wipe that gloss off.' I'm wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I'm immediately trying to get comfortable. It's really a part I play.

American Actress

Jane Jensen

For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

American Designer

Shweta Basu Prasad

Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!

Indian Actress

Maria Brink

I wear like lip gloss and my hair is always really natural, and I'm a really kind of natural free spirit in my everyday life who has crystals and I burn sage, and I think I find a lot of calming beauty in that stuff.

American Musician

Pete Waterman

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

English Producer

Ashley Wagner

Covergirl is my sponsor, and they have been so helpful in supplying me with their wonderful products. I love their blush, mascara and lip gloss.

American Athlete

Martin Short

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

American Actor

Jami Gertz

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

Patti D'Arbanville

How long can you gloss everything over and give people the idea that life is a sitcom?

Gloss indicates how much a material reflects light, often associated with cleanliness or newness.

Material Reflection

When describing objects, gloss implies a smooth, often reflective surface texture.

Surface Quality

Glosses as short explanations help clarify difficult terms within a text without disrupting the flow.

Clarifying Text

In academic texts, glosses are often used to support readers’ understanding of specialized vocabulary.

Academic Support

As a verb, gloss can mean subtly hiding flaws or details, sometimes to mislead.

Subtle Concealment

To gloss over something can imply an intentional avoidance of delving into specifics.

Avoiding Details

Gloss as a cosmetic implies a product that provides a wet-looking sheen or slight color.

Cosmetic Usage

In modern usage, lip gloss is considered a fashion accessory and can suggest effort in appearance.

Fashion Accessory

 The little middle line is the gloss, so it's word for word, that's what it says. And they're actually learning some very fascinating things, especially if they're English speakers. They're learning that a verb can come at the very end of a sentence. Doesn't really do that in English when you have two arguments. They're learning that sometimes

Why language is...

 when you go to the museum and I think this is incredibly important because not all of us feel the same way have the same memories or or have the same perspective depending on where you come from so this is the story that the museum is committed to not glossing over or sugar coating and the fact that they're inviting the world to come and

The building of the...

 they paid attention to and even when for example they incorporated sharks fossilized teeth into their rituals which they did they had the they took the teeth and they dipped them in there were wine goblets and they refer to them as gloss Patraeus Dragon tongue stones they thought they came from dragons and

Juliet Eilperin: Demon...

 what's beautiful about this is it's a real kind of gritty hard-nosed version that strips back all of the kind of the gloss that we're that we're kind of used to and it's not for the faint-hearted I'd call it's about what defines civilizations it's kind of deals with everything this got a bit of everything

First Look PIPE Killing...

 and threw a bucket of water at it. Presto! Then when we went to press, the printer put a spot gloss on the ink and it really looked like it was running. Not long after it came out, Augusten was waylaid in an airport and he was hiding out in the bookstore

The hilarious art of...

 So in that picture, the x and the w are known, and the y is the unknown. I'm glossing over the very difficult part, of course, which is how on earth do we figure out the w, the brain that can do such a thing? How would we ever learn such a model?

How computers are...

 I would not be taken seriously. I really wanted to wear my shiny lip gloss and my girly skirt, but I decided not to. Instead, I wore a very serious, very manly and very ugly suit. Because the sad truth is that when it comes to appearance

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 I'd come home and we'd gloss over everything and there's this event, this avalanche, going back to it started to appear as the event that sparked this great divide in my life, because it had shot me in one direction upwards.

After the Avalanche:...

 but it means everything to changing norms in business because it means we're going to start measuring and disclosing what matters. And so I think these things should all give us hope. But let me not gloss over the fact

Use Your Voice, Vote and...

 And "go and study it" was what he meant. He said, "In your exegesis, you must make it clear that every single verse of the Torah is a commentary, a gloss upon the Golden Rule."