Yes, but his stories have papered over lots of things.
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You get a reference to how McGraw Hill papered over slavery.
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Weak free cash flow, on the other hand, cannot be papered over.
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Divisions that were previously papered over are now coming to the fore.
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That's a reality that must be reckoned with and can't be papered over.
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Prejudice against Asian-Americans, not to mention state violence, is often papered over.
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Fantasy, limerence, longing, and lust were the gift wrap that papered over my depression.
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Loftus also papered over the lenses of a pair of glasses, which I wore.
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Mr. Obama has long papered over the awkwardness with a speech peppered with puns.
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The panes are grimy with age or possibly papered over; we can't see much inside.
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Washington's security guarantee has papered over cracks that Moscow and Beijing would rush to expose.
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Our divisions are deep and real and can't be papered over with fixes like these.
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For the most part, the offense has papered over the bullpen blemishes, but since Sept.
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And policy differences are papered over by envoys behind closed doors well ahead of time.
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For a long time, these different approaches were papered over under the banner of solidarity.
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The problems the GOP faces, in other words, can't be papered over with narrow process adjustments.
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But internal divisions were papered over when new, unifying threats emerged after the attacks on Sept.
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I think the biggest shock was seeing businesses with boarded up or papered-over storefronts. pic.twitter.
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A bookstore, also attacked by rioters, is derelict, its walls papered over with posters and advertisements.
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It is business as usual, with the same ideas papered over with a vague economic message.
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In the end, the NATO leaders publicly papered over their differences to present a unified front.
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Once the surveillance cameras were painted out or papered over, many holdouts gladly joined in the destruction.
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As the company appeared to turn its back on those values, upset employees papered over those slogans.
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The ethos of the era is oppositional, to discard the superficial civility that papered over terrible injustice.
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Her menu was on the wall, with the price list papered over and new prices scribbled in.
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The side facing our front door had been papered over with "Ban Them All" written on it.
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On Wednesday, all those worries were papered over for a night, in particular because of Porzingis's outburst.
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Langdon has since seen much of that era's residual damage papered over with remodeled homes and new construction.
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"The Kiir and Machar conflict always papered over a major crisis," said Alan Boswell, a researcher on South Sudan.
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Money came easily from his network, and for years, he papered over the losses by bringing in new money.
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Winter light through immense, half-papered-over windows cast a pall on the stained, brown-and-yellow-tiled walls.
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But unlike Renzi, 81-year-old Berlusconi has papered over the differences and kept his focus on his main rival.
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There were serious and deep divisions within the GOP that had been papered over after President Obama won the White House.
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Above the door, which has its window papered over, a safety sign catalogs various health and fire hazards that lurk within.
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In the regular season, inconsistent starting pitching can be papered over by consistent offensive success, at least to a certain degree.
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The teachers' protests are an important lesson in the ways Donald Trump's presidency has papered over historical divisions on the left.
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To a degree, these divisions could be papered over as veterans raced to build the American Century, freed from wartime exigencies.
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The alliance may seem natural to outsiders — two gulf autocrats with similar initials — but the bond papered over a historic rift.
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Merkel and Seehofer papered over the cracks ahead of last year&aposs national election, but support for both parties still dropped significantly.
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The disagreements between her Christian Democrats (CDU) and their more conservative Bavarian partners, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have been papered over.
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He papered over Trump's racism because it enabled his own; he shrugged off Trump's authoritarian tendencies because he has a few himself.
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But the tensions that arose over the course of the campaign have only been thinly papered over and could easily erupt again.
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The West has papered over Libya's divisions, first with the creation of the GNA and more recently with deals over oil production.
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All of this is creating trouble for emerging markets whose social and political vulnerabilities have been papered over by favorable external winds.
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The optimistic official take on Thursday's proceedings, however, was short on detail and papered over political tensions bubbling just under the surface.
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For now, at least, the president's forceful response has papered over cracks in Republican support that threatened to upend his negotiating position.
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The rush to restore cultural monuments in Iraq and Syria has papered over the failure to rebuild houses, infrastructure, and people's lives.
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Nitin Mehta papered over the failures of the Modi regime; in fact, only 10% of rural electrification has been achieved in real terms.
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For months, she papered over the cracks, offering a clean break from EU institutions for Brexit supporters, and close economic ties for remainers.
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The dispute has erupted in years past and has been papered over after the intervention of the other GCC states but not resolved.
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Indifferent to continuity, Micheaux, an extremely pragmatic filmmaker, cobbled together scenes out of imperfect takes and papered over mismatched shots with dubbed dialogue.
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And while previous administrations had papered over differences with generous promises of financial aid, Mr. Tillerson's goody bag will be all but empty.
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Labour's Brexit strategy has papered over similar faultlines dividing the Conservatives and the party faithful are far from united behind their leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
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He also papered over the political fight concerning dozens of lower-court judicial nominations Barack Obama has submitted for the Senate's advice and consent.
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Deep disagreements between these tribes were papered over by the fact that each could, roughly speaking, control the area they were most interested in.
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Yet there are critical policy issues in play that can't be papered over: Iran continues to expand its reach in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
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Those wins have papered over some of the cracks as Arsenal has often come up short in the Premier League and the Champions League.
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It has been papered over with the American vowels that come so naturally to his three young sons: Amolak, 8, Ajaivir, 5, and Japnaam, 3.
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No one should know better than Mr. Trudeau that this work is needed now, and must not get papered over until the next appalling episode.
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Speaking in one voice, the eight justices papered over their demonstrably contrasting views on the legal merits of the religious non-profit groups' challenge to Obamacare.
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For a long while, we papered over this weakness with ever-lower interest rates engineered by the Fed or by spending out of asset market bubbles.
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Still, with Trump attending, and if he desists from his trademark inflammatory politics, the nation's divides could be papered over, at least for a few days.
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SAN FRANCISCO — You did not have to be a technophobe to worry that the virtual-currency boom of the past year papered over plenty of problems.
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But the Nevada win has papered over those concerns for now, providing a much-needed morale boost for the wounded Democratic front-runner and her campaign.
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Divides between differing shades of conservatives had been papered over during President Obama's time in the White House, the party bound together by a common adversary.
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So far, unfortunately, China hasn't made much progress in dealing with this fundamental imbalance; instead, it has papered over the problem with a huge expansion of credit.
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While the political differences run deep and can't be papered over, it's also true that Americans are hungering for real solutions and pragmatic compromise on key issues.
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But the coming negotiation with Brussels will force him into painful trade-offs that cannot be papered over with promises of more money for schools and hospitals.
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That could happen if all the above trends accelerate, "persistent unbridgeable conflicts" that were papered over by Paris make further cooperation impossible, and countries begin pulling out.
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What followed was a months-long, tumultuous, roller-coaster process full that exposed deep contradictions in the GOP that the "repeal and replace" campaign slogan had papered over.
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The GOP kept those voters in their coalition, as commentators have shown, by talking about cultural and racial issues that papered over the fundamental tension in their coalition.
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It took nine months for these countries to return their ambassadors to Doha after the two sides papered over their differences with pledges that were not effectively implemented.
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The complex history of the priestly caste is papered over with strident assertions of Brahmanical purity, of which vegetarianism and the sanctity of the cow are indispensable components.
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In the past, similar such policy disagreements about the Greek economy have in the end been papered over by each of the three main parties having made compromises.
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Sotomayor added that some jurisdictions are more law-abiding than others, and such distinctions would be papered over if the court embraced a single rule across the country.
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But Britain's vote to leave the European Union leaves the Continent's leaders facing difficult choices that may not be so easily kicked down the road or papered over.
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And across the complex, there were instances of unmanned security posts, poor record-keeping, papered-over security cameras, rodent infestation, water leaks, sagging floors and expired fire extinguishers.
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Daly argued the inequality problems are a result of "structural" obstacles in the system, including access to education, that can't be papered over even by a strong economy.
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The dispute with Italy, after Macron accused Rome's new government of "cynicism and irresponsibility" for refusing to take in a ship carrying migrants, has been papered over for now.
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Is there also a sense in which the rise of two-earner households has papered over, at least on the surface, the real economic crisis that people are in?
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But the privilege that afforded him a path to stardom is neatly papered over with tales of a Hammer, back from the Caymans, out of touch and dicking around.
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He also papered over Trump's decision to compare his communications with the families of fallen soldiers with those of his predecessors, namely Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
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The Oscars are always full of awkwardness and contradiction, and the show is always better when some of the discomfort is allowed to fester, rather than being papered over.
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Is her cautious, reasoned style of politics what Germany needs in order to weather the growing tumult, or has it papered over problems that its citizens must urgently confront?
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One of her goals is to highlight the role of women, in that era and since, that has often been forgotten or papered over by history and by art.
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It will find all of your architectural flaws, papered-over cracks, and loose tiles; it will use them to spread and spread; and you only have so many buckets.
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Whatever the circumstances that led to murdering her 4-year-old child (and it certainly seems she was a victim of terrible circumstances), they should not be papered over.
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Pressing the Democratic impeachment managers on their reasons for largely leaving the Mueller probe out of impeachment exposes internal party differences that have been largely papered over since December.
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Here, the exhibition borrows the visual language of the streets just outside the Whitney, where constant construction and urban hustle are often papered over with high-gloss, aspirational imagery.
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Even the points of contention on tax reform were largely papered over during the meeting, senators said, in favor of a more surface-level discussion of areas of common interest.
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Most upsetting are the milk bars that have never been repurposed, that sit empty and papered over, their signs for the daily paper and packaged ice cream bars heavily graffitied.
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And Mr. Buttigieg's candidacy is exposing tensions that have been papered over during the period of relative unity and common purpose that has taken hold since President Trump took office.
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During the first decade of the euro, which was launched in 1999, they did nothing to tackle the flaws in its design as a credit boom papered over the multiple defects.
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This trend, however, was papered over by the explosion of easy mortgage lending that began nearly twenty years ago and culminated in the bursting of the real estate bubble in 2006.
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Those may be papered over, as we saw in Greece, but the underlying sense of grievance sets the stage for populist or nationalist political programs, as in the U.S. and Britain.
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Yes, Democrats did well in recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere, but those victories papered over very serious rifts that could affect it during the next presidential election cycle.
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For most of this year, Mr. Trump and America's European allies have papered over stark differences on such issues as the Paris climate accord to preserve some semblance of Western unity.
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President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron papered over the cracks in their relationship in a press conference Tuesday in London, but disagreed sharply over Turkey's role in the NATO alliance.
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Bernal Heights has the ambience of a village, with small shops, public bulletin boards papered over with notices and even a wild coyote whose welfare many in the community fuss over.
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It feels suspiciously like like Sheridan's screenplay wants to have both have its cake and wolf it down: violent machismo and reactionary explosiveness, later papered over by a dose of wokeness.
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But these broad trends leave lots of room for individual differences that matter in the real world, and that are often papered over when we talk about millennials as a monolithic collective.
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Like so much of American history, the story has had its least attractive features winnow away — white people have been centered in the narrative and all atrocity has been politely papered over.
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Thus, Mike's grievances about Ryan letting down Kristin and their child by skipping town were papered over with fights about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, and the personal subsumed into the political.
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"I think it's very clear that we could not reach consensus, but the differences were not papered over, they were clearly stated," Merkel told reporters at the end of the two-day meeting.
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When disagreements between Trump and Coats previously spilled into public view, Trump has quickly papered over the discord and moved on, but it remains unclear whether the that will happen again this time.
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No president since Ronald Reagan has won the presidency as convincingly, twice over, as Obama did — but those victories papered over an extraordinary decline in his party that became suddenly unignorable on Nov.
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Our survey data reveals voters of all parties moving to Trump if Sanders is nominated, a liability papered over by young voters who claim they would be inspired to vote by Sanders alone.
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Each autumn cities and towns around the world are papered over with posters, flyers, and banners with the American flag and the Statue of Liberty, advertising the chance to enter the American lottery.
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Mr. Trump's election has, at least temporarily, papered over any major divisions, leaving members ecstatic at the prospect of enacting proposals that stood no chance of passage with a Democrat in the White House.
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What happens is then everybody clams up, and real differences are kind of elided or papered over because nobody wants to look like their campaign is on the wrong track or out of control.
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As the composition of the electorate changed — approaching the point of a majority-minority nation in the 22019s — white, Christian men (whose dominance had previously papered over the deep fissures in America) lost their hegemony.
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Until Mr. Trump's signature tax cut plan was passed in December, that schism was largely papered over in the name of unity as Republicans focused on lowering rates for corporations, wealthy Americans and middle-class families.
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But the score met instantly with an array of criticisms, from worries that it created a new cast of winners and losers in the admissions process, to concerns that it papered over an inherently flawed test.
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G7 leaders on Saturday papered over cracks in their alliance at a summit in Canada but came away with little more than an agreement to disagree as U.S. President Donald Trump defiantly brandished his "America First" agenda.
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As the movie begins, seven-year-old Chloe (Lexy Kolker) is living with her father Henry (Emile Hirsch) in a huge, dilapidated house with the windows papered over and a long string of locks on the doors.
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After Trump was elected the two papered over their differences and even developed a rapport, talking frequently during health care negotiations earlier this year, as each understood they needed the other to advance individual and shared goals.
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What's so great about Jorphdan's diaries, though, is that he's very honest about both decisions and mistakes that he makes while running the game, and importantly, he runs viewers through how he papered over or fixed those mistakes.
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Disney's firing of James Gunn, a director, last week over tweets from a decade ago, before he was hired and for which he has apologised, seems to be one instance in which such distinctions have been papered over.
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"There were a lot of differences that were papered over after the election not just between McConnell and Trump, but Paul Ryan and Trump and now I think some of those are coming to the surface," Massie said.
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As in 1938, these differences were papered over, but they have returned to the forefront as the Tea Party, conservative media, and a rebellion against establishment politics are threatening to fold the "big tent" of the Republican Party.
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BL: Why is it that these things, all the things that are right with Hong Kong, get you know papered over or covered over by a lot of the negatives that the press tends to harp on nowadays?
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These objects were mediated by Mr. Moss's mother's desire for a traditionally decorated suburban showplace, so the hand dryers were glazed to match the bathroom tiles and the intercoms were papered over in grass cloth and floral prints.
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A surprise can be a welcome distraction, and David Kostin — the chief US equity strategist for Goldman Sachs — says a little bit of good news over the last few weeks may have papered over a lot of worry.
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G-23 leaders warned on Friday that a British vote to leave the EU next month would seriously threaten the world economy, as they promised "more forceful" policies to boost global growth but papered over differences about fiscal stimulus.
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And whereas in recent months Britons have papered over weak wage growth by borrowing, the latest figures from the Bank of England, published this morning, suggest that Britons are now taking a more cautious approach to their personal finances.
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As it turns out, she's wrong about a lot of things, but that's the show's most generous quality: its bottomless compassion for anyone struggling to reconcile a messy family history, including the ugly stuff that can't be papered over.
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"This could be a turning point but it will be papered over by the leaderships in the way that it always is - but papering over bigger and bigger cracks now so the paper is thinner and thinner," Kendall said.
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"This could be a turning point but it will be papered over by the leaderships in the way that it always is - but papering over bigger and bigger cracks now so the paper is thinner and thinner," Kendall said.
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The new plan threatens to escalate tensions between the United States and Turkey — two NATO allies — that were papered over during the offensive last year to seize Raqqa, which had been the Islamic State's self-proclaimed capital in Syria.
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Despite occupying an ostensibly coequal branch of government, "Capitol Hill Republicans have papered over their not-insignificant policy differences with Trump, shying away from any statement about the president-elect that might possibly be construed as critical," Politico reported Wednesday.
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This has been papered over by the fact that Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Peter Dinklage are the three best actors on the show, but nevertheless they have been subsumed by a story that has decided it isn't about them.
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That might have been because it was still brand-new, but also might have been because the place was entirely unmarked, with its windows papered over and its front overhang still advertising a hair salon that had previously been there.
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You can't watch, say, The Civil War and not see the barely papered-over fault lines that still exist in American politics, and a miniseries like Baseball could present a different prism through which to consider what America cares about.
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What if, when we fret that something has gone awry with America, we are merely getting a glimpse of a dysfunction that is actually normal, and has always been normal, and has merely been papered over, for a few decades, with careful management?
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And they look at the substance of the Paris accord, which papered over a failed attempt to set binding emission rules with a set of fine-sounding promises, and see little to justify all the anguish and despair over Donald Trump's decision to abandon it.
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Together, they conquered the nine realms, Hela's violence growing and growing until Odin, seeing her unquenchable bloodlust, had a change of heart and decided that she needed to be exiled and their legacy as conquerors papered over with a nicer, diplomacy-focused historical record.
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The communique, which appeared to have papered over the cracks that have surfaced in the G7, said the leaders of the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Japan agreed on the need for "free, fair, and mutually beneficial trade" and the importance of fighting protectionism.
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It is escapism, but of a different variety: to a place where women are the center of the narrative, and where the realities of living as an ambitious woman in a society still very much frightened of them aren't papered over, but explored with great delight and dismay.
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The changes have been so profound that some argue that the nation — founded by the elite as a project that papered over ethnicity and religion to create the concept of a modern Turk — will have to pass through a period of uncertainty and possibly chaos to find itself again.
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When a young woman claiming to be the now-adult Beloved comes to Sethe's house, Sethe begins to believe that she may at last be able to forget: that if Beloved is truly alive, then what Sethe did to her never happened, and so slavery may be erased, forgotten, papered over.
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WASHINGTON — The furor over spousal abuse allegations that forced the resignation of one of President Trump's top advisers last week has exposed fissures within the White House that had been papered over since John F. Kelly took over last summer as chief of staff with a mandate to end the dysfunction.
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Mr. Trump laid out the broad outlines of a health care overhaul that papered over divisions among Republicans about how to structure it, calling for a plan that uses tax credits and tax-advantaged savings accounts to help Americans buy insurance, and promising a "stable transition" from the existing system.
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Alternatively, if there was a genuine justification for the citizenship query but the Trump administration papered over it because it was legally suspect—driving down Hispanic response rates to entrench white Republican power, for example, as recently uncovered evidence suggests—the government will be loth to own up to it and courts would balk.
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Could we have our first four-party election in 2020 — with candidates from the Donald Trump far right, the old G.O.P. center right, the Joe Biden center left and the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez far left all squaring off, as the deepening divides within our two big parties simply can't be papered over any longer?
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It looked about the same as now: fading black facade of peeling paint, windows papered over, without a sign or even a doorbell to announce the light within — and behind that leaden barrier: him, whirling about in his mechanical chair, his body slumped low in the seat, his chin thrust high as he scrambled to complete the day's work.
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But aside from that, it's exactly the kind of speech that Kerry should have given years ago, instead of placing his faith in good faith negotiations and careful, quiet diplomacy: It puts Israel's feet to the fire and makes clear that the international consensus is against its current actions, a fact that has been papered over, in part, by U.S. vetoes.
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Our tour group got especially lucky — as we were standing outside the late Kirk Douglas's former home, the brother of the new owner emerged and invited us in to gawk at the house mid-renovation, including a guest casita papered over from wall to ceiling with vintage Kirk Douglas movie posters, a K-shaped pool and an immaculate tennis court.
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While the establishment's predicament can be papered over by the seemingly unified opposition to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, this is not a solution.
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Meanwhile the year-old EU-US Privacy Shield agreement, which was put in place last year as a replacement mechanism for governing personal data flows between those two regions (after the ECJ invalidated its predecessor arrangement), is already looking precariously placed, and critics maintain the agreement has merely papered over a fundamental disconnect between EU privacy rights and US government national security data collection programs.
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But in the end, these rejected laughingstocks have only papered over a whole gallery of cabinet grotesques: from Scott Pruitt to Steve Mnuchin; Ben Carson to Betsy DeVos; and other "not qualified" jurists such as Leonard Steven Grasz, a believer in ignoring high-court rulings for abortion rights, former board member of a Nebraska organization that supports "conversion therapy" for gay kids (views Grasz says he has "never repudiated"), and a justice described as vengeful and "gratuitously rude" by former colleagues, who is now filling a lifetime seat on the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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