Word: dampering
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...hinge on which the rest of the century's camerawork would turn. By the early 1920s he had already established an international reputation for mildly swoony images in gray-beige tones. He had also grown restless with pictorialism, which took its inspiration from impressionism, symbolism and the damper moments of Whistler. In time, he found a new expressive vocabulary in the angles and hard lines of constructivism and cubism, which he matched to a new photographic method. The focus was sharp. The prints were made directly from the negative, without an enlarger. The chemical manipulations that produced the soulful fogs...
...person like me--that is, reckless, feckless, and armed with someone else's gas card--this sounds like a good thing. At the very least it could reduce the number of speeding tickets, and maybe even the number of Sunday drivers, that often put a damper on my high-speed sojourns...
...loss also put a damper on the otherwise strong weekend showing for the grapplers, who swept five of their six meets, including a decisive victory over Penn on Saturday...
Meanwhile, a mutiny was brewing in the ranks of Republican House members. They felt ignored by the White House, and many considered Rostenkowski's bill antibusiness and hence a damper on growth. Reagan moved last week to try to bring the G.O.P. into line, but he faced determined opposition from Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois and the rest of the House Republican leadership...
Yale put a damper on Harvard's weekend yesterday afternoon, though, giving the Crimson (3-1 overall, 1-1 Ivy) its first loss of the year...