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Перевод: shrift

[существительное]
исповедь ; отпущение грехов

Тезаурус:

1. Rab then, his watch gone, a new hard concentration; short shrift, he won that game but lost the next and back to nothing.
2. Thus, offenders who invoke their Protestant religion as a means of justifying some action get short shrift, although we came across only one instance where this was done.
3. Regrettably for the Palace, Alan found it difficult to adjust to 2nd and then 3rd Division football, where his undoubted skills were given short shrift by our opponents and, although he always gave of his best, he was equally always a heavily marked man.
4. The popularity of road transport has meant that railways have either had short shrift, as in Britain, where investment per kilometre is about one-third that in France, or have had to be heavily subsidized, as in France and Germany.
5. I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul's novel: the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend, the novelist Paul Theroux, as having in earlier times been "merciless, solitary, and (one of his favourite words) unassailable".
6. Commanders who undervalued or ignored Ultra get short shrift.
7. This would mean that a marriage did exist; but doubtless it would not be beyond the wit of the courts to arrange things so that the question of ancillary relief received short shrift.
8. We have all heard stories about GPs alleged to have given patients short shrift with remarks like: "Throw away your crutches.
9. His complaint under Article 12 received short shrift.
10. A "revolutionary committee" of barons seemed about to take control of the central government: the forest would have had short shrift from them.
11. He has received short shrift from the CEGB, having recently been moved to an out-of-the-way office at Barnwood, the central headquarters base for the board's engineering development and design teams.
12. But any suggestion that it could lead to leaving the NHS, whose headquarters move to Leeds next year, gets short shrift.
13. He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help - and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return.