0 If you get or are given short shrift by someone, you are treated without sympathy and given little attention:
Race and gender issues, for instance, get short shrift (pp. 145-7).
Former movement leaders, some now in government, give the remnants of their former movements and others short shrift.
Crucial aspects of these variegated problems are almost certainly going to get short shrift in any monograph.
He gives particularly short shrift to the alternative possibilities (gender, ethnicity and so on); see his comments on page 19 for example.
Limited almost exclusively to problems of spatial perception, that analysis gives short shrift to even the most fundamental issues of psychological or physiological import.
Pensions, social services, health care and social assistance get very short shrift in comparison with developments in trade, manufacturing, industrial relations and employment structure.
In addition, some of the most interesting recent findings and controversies are either not mentioned or are given short shrift.
To the bankers' cries of ruin and humiliation they gave short shrift.
