Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

NURSE See where she comes from shrift with merry look.

Vickers gives short shrift to some of the more beguiling options.

NURSE Have you got leave to go to shrift to day?

To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away, Exeunt Montague and Lady.

ROMEO Bid her devise some means to come to shrift This afternoon

The Court made short shrift of Ellwanger's claim, becauseall human beings can be the victims of racism.

Indeed, while China s new stimulus plan overwhelmingly emphasizes infrastructure, it gives short shrift to social programs, such as health care and education, even though they can reduce household saving pressure and increase private consumption.

They created a closed culture, impervious to contradictory facts, a culture in which civil rights have been given short shrift and some people have been deemed not to deserve any rights protection at all.

For all the lip service paid to relations with Mexico (and, indeed, with Latin America more generally) from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Obama, the truth is that developments in Mexico have always gotten short shrift from US presidents.