Word: detracted
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Bunyan's Way. The imperfection of the instrument does not detract from the nobility of the aim provided its imperfection is recognized and admitted. Many who went on the Crusades were actuated by base motives or were led into ignoble behavior, but the Crusades still remained a noble enterprise. It is the same today. Because Chiang was corrupt, it does not necessarily follow that he must not now be supported; because Rhee can behave like a villain, it does not follow that none of us who were associated with the defense of South Korea may hold up our heads...
MacLeish made no changes in the original radio script of "The Trojan Horse." This presents a major directing problem. "Voices can describe action on the radio," MacLeish said, "but when both are present together on a stage, they sometimes detract from each other". This problem has been solved by the Poets group, he added...
...Paris, after serving as an official U.S. representative at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Editor Fleur (Look) Cowles had an explanation for the demure grey dress she wore to the ceremony: "I dressed down so as not to detract from the Queen. I told Valentina to make me a simple dress that would blend inconspicuously with the color of the Abbey pillars...
...melodramatic prodigality, Anna Magnani outdoes both story and setting. She acts the unhappy heroine with her whole vivid personality, slouching body, disheveled hair, grieving eyes and caged face. Not even a fumbling job of English-language dubbing can detract from her performance. Whether she is mourning the death of her dog, shouting obscenely at the islanders or tipsily singing a holiday song, she makes most other movie actresses look like pale blossoms indeed...
...refusing to support this statement, the Council felt that it would markedly detract from its earlier, widely-circulated policy dictum. In addition, it did not want to appear in favor of a blanket denial of the right of Congressional investigations of schools...