Word: detract
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...such dialogue can lead only to boredom or criticism. Miss Hayes, although convincing in her role, insists on moving about the stage not fluidly but solely in a series of jerky motions. Mr. Brookes's prime acting mechanism is his repertoire of grossly exaggerated facial contortions, which tend to detract from rather than enhance his overall performance...
...occasional offensive lyric, however, doesn't detract from the fact that the music itself is pure untarnished country, with a sensuality that bluegrass music often lacks...
Jackson Browne's songs are bouncy, and if you listen to them closely, dull. But he is at least energetic and probably will not detract from what should be a first-Raitt concert...
...himself open to this kind of facile speculation. But for once let the context be forgot, not only because one could make a case for a peculiarly redemptive humility of tone in the novel, but just on general principles. References to Mesopotamian mythology and Joseph Conrad don't detract from the fact that this is a hell of a baseball book, and I'd rather hear a Brooklyn Dodger fan than a professor on this...
...good jokes, nice lyrics, lively and interesting score. But they intended Superman to be inept and endearing, so they wrote it in. What this Quincy House production does, no less endearingly, is extend the clumsiness to the whole presentation. Needless as this amateur touch is, it doesn't really detract from an evening that had little more than laugh potential anyway. Harvard audiences seem sympathetic to plays that have some rollicking enthusiasm, and no one minded much that the technical, orchestral, and choreographic aspects of this production were bad, bad, bad on opening night...