Because the author skims so lightly over Caravaggio's own story and the qualities of his work that make him such a presciently modern painter, this is a volume best read in conjunction with another book about the artist - preferably one that is copiously illustrated with pictures of the master's luminous and unsettling art.
Rowling's deviation from wizard-lit clearly had plenty on its mind, including class distinctions and social justice, but the screen version skims too lightly over an abundance of characters, generally painting the adults as cartoonish or buffoonish, and reserving what little depth and sympathy exists for the teens.
In this book Mr. Clinton skims over these issues lightly.
Rowland comes tantalisingly close to coolness, deploying a voice that skims over melodies as lightly as a breeze, but never quite makes the leap to true passion.
Such problems have been explored in recent books like Will Hutton's "Writing on the Wall: Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy," Philip P. Pan's "Out of Mao's Shadow" and James Kynge's "China Shakes the World," and yet Mr. Jacques skims over these issues lightly and dismissively.
They skim lightly, knowingly, over acres of more-or-less known pop-cultural history, giving just enough detail for anyone not sufficiently up on the band.
Unwelcome sexual advances should not be passed over lightly.
Consider broadcasting switchgrass seeds over lightly worked soil.
The choreographers skimmed lightly over some thorny questions: To what extent do Asians of differing national backgrounds consider themselves allies?
Mr. Winkler skims lightly over events like the sieges at Waco, Tex., and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, which fueled the militia movement, and treats the Columbine, Virginia Tech and Tucson massacres in an equally glancing manner.
Mr. McMurtry skims lightly over his time in California in the early 1960s as a Stegner Fellow, his years living and writing in northern Virginia while selling used books in Georgetown, and the "literary gloom" he felt from 1975 to '83, when he says he stopped liking his own writing.
