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Gamboa, the strongest of the cast, is always perfectly in character and avoids the temptation to go over-the-top. The same, however, cannot be said for his Sicilian counterpart (also played by Saval), whose sometimes melodramatic line readings detract from the emotional nuances of the character...
...which give assault victims a space to voice their pain, should we just put 100 copies of the student handbook up on a clothesline? Or maybe we could make it more visible by writing the policies on t-shirts in place of the Clothesline Project. Clearly, these approaches would detract from the efficacy and original purpose of the Clothesline Project...
...glass ceiling, the film provides an unneeded and often distracting portrayal of Mayweather’s past—replete with an abusive husband that made her a cop hungry for revenge. These stories, however, do not seem especially relevant to the plot insofar as they detract from an interesting murder investigation...
...don’t think he’ll let it detract from the attention he gives to Harvard,” Stone said yesterday...
This veritable onslaught of extraneous information can sometimes detract from the substance of the applicant’s folder, according to Fitzsimmons...