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Moon7296 Posted 16 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

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Great comic artists assume that truth may bear all lights, and thus they seek to accentuate contradictions in social action, not gloss over or transcend them by appeals to extrasocial symbols of divine ends or cosmic purpose.

I don't know the grammar point of the underlined part. Is "not gloss over ~" connected to "they" in the first line?
  

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Hi, Great comic artists assume that truth may bear all lights, and thus they seek to accentuate contradictions in social action, not gloss over or transcend them by appeals to extrasocial symbols of divine ends or cosmic purpose. I don't know the grammar point of the underlined part. Is "not gloss over ~" connected to "they" in the first line?

— Clive

  • Hi, Great comic artists assume that truth may bear all lights, and thus they seek to accentuate contradictions in social action, not gloss over or transcend them by appeals to extrasocial symbols of divine ends or cosmic purpose.
  • I don't know the grammar point of the underlined part.
  • Is "not gloss over ~" connected to "they" in the first line?
  • Here's the idea.
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Hi,

Great comic artists assume that truth may bear all lights, and thus they seek to accentuate contradictions in social action, not gloss over or transcend them by appeals to extrasocial symbols of divine ends or cosmic purpose.

I don't know the grammar point of the underlined part. Is "not gloss over ~" connected to "they" in the first line?
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