Word: detract
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...both the functional demands of the urban framework and the lifestyle of tenants. In attacking this approach, Newman combines functional considerations with sociological analysis. However sound his design theories may be, he is no sociologist. A few undeveloped digressions into the "root causes" of social ills do more to detract from than to strengthen his theories of defensible space...
...highest level of quality. Some people fear that affirmative action will inevitably conflict with our efforts to maintain high standards of teaching and scholarship. I disagree. If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it. To accomplish this result, we must observe two import principles...
UNDER MILK WOOD. Dylan Thomas wrote this verse play, as he put it, "for voices." The images that Director Andrew Sinclair has added to his film adaptation do not complement Thomas' language; they detract from it. The language that comes cascading off the sound track is bottled into florid captions for an illustrated travel guide to Wales. Whenever Sinclair is not being resolutely literal-minded, he diverts himself by being fantastical. It will not do for Richard Burton merely to read the first voice. He must appear, all rumpled and dour and selfabsorbed, like some wandering Welshman cursed...
...squad, a quarterback whom I felt was not giving Harvard an optimum performance. I hold no personal animosity toward him as an individual and I did not seek to main him psychologically. But after the frustration of watching performance after unsuccessful performance, I felt that a change could not detract from an already meager athletic production. And I wrote what I felt, hoping as did so many other fans, that the end result would be a better team performance for Harvard...
FEILINI LONG AGO secured his place in the film patheon, and even so imperfect a film as Roma doesn't begin to jeopardize that, Roma, it is safe to say, will neither add to nor detract from Fellini's reputation. Its successes are as large as its failures are obtrusive. It is, in short, an astonishingly inconsistent film whose hits manage to outnumber its misses, but only just barely...