Word: detract
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Tuesday night's performance seems to say that ABT is potentially still the same company of international acclaim as its dancers are masters of classical ballet and also versatile in other areas. However, in the future, it must filter out those pieces that detract, rather than heighten that impression...
...Radio, like many other media outlets, a couple of weeks ago echoed the latest self-congratulations of the government, chirping happily about the "good economic news" that unemployment dropped slightly. A little later, they noted parenthetically that joblessness in fact increased among Blacks, although this did not seem to detract much attention from the overall "good news...
...musicians who also directs, is at work on an album-length video, but offers some words of general guidance and caution. "I tend to like to have relatively few visual links to the lyrics of the song. I feel that you pigeonhole the song that way, that you detract from the lyrics by interpreting them. Images in Burning Down the House have to do with the music, not the lyrics. The images of the fire and the house link to the words, but the house is never burning. That would be a clich...
...good president. It would be hypocritical to hide that conclusion. But as a professor. I must feel as free to criticize his positions as I do to offer ideas to anyone, including the current administration. Moreover, I feel that the amount of time devoted to such concerns must not detract from my teaching and research. These limits are important, and are not caught by the caption that you used. Joseph S. Nye Professor of Government
...focus of this production is on the fluid, intense interactions between characters, and Jennings never lets excessive motions detract from the power of the character's language. In his two productions last year Enemy of the People and The Mother. Jennings let extreme political leftism overshadow the acting. But in this play, Jennings has cast political sentiment aside and concentrated his attentions on accentuating the fineness of the acting...