Word: detract
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...Thenardiers' role is to add bawdy fun and frivolity to the show, while oppressing the long-suffering Cosette. Dougherty and Ebsary, however, are simply obnoxious. Their roles call for crudity, but they are so raw (grabbing crotches and mimicking penises with rolled up paper) that they detract from the otherwise spectacular staging. The two crooks are scene-stealers in the worst possible...
Robert Vernon's performance as Enjolras underscores the definat determination of the students; and their eventual defeat does not detract from their honest resolve...
...members of the council say that administrative policies aimed at including both the Harvard and Cambridge communities at large will detract from the student-centered atmosphere they were hoping the commons would offer...
...response to complaints that the cementstructures might detract from the overallappearance of the nineteenth century building,which was recently named one of Boston's top 10architectural examples, Riley said: "If you wantto feed 1600 people three times a day, you need tobring the goods...
Katz sent a letter of resignation to the Holocaust Museum Friday, saying the "frivolous and non-meritorious allegations which have been asserted would unduly detract" from the work at the museum...