Word: detracting
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...athletic director said he had sent Jordan a letter in which he wanted to make it clear that Cornell was not trying "to detract one iota from Harvard's performance on Saturday. Harvard outplayed us and deserved...
...reputation for humor is at once Owen's greatest asset and a liability which he is most likely to deplore. Like the Hogarth engravings on his office walls, Owen's lectures are liberally sprinkled with bits of historical paraphernalia, each so interesting in itself that it is likely to detract from the whole. The "Crystal Palace" lecture, featuring lantern slides of a once famous Victorian exhibition, along with Owen's barbed asides, is an example. "I'm sorry it has developed into a kind of stunt or parlor trick. It really has a value in depicting the Victorian...
These small adverse criticisms in no way detract from the value of the first complete, factually correct biography, that has been written of Savage, his society, and friends...
...somewhat sloppy Valentina is Rodgers and Hammerstein's eulogy of the theatre, "Me and Juliet." The show has its hits, but it also has songs like "The Big, Black Giant," which can only detract from the composers' reputation. Joan McCracken makes the whole business worth the splashy effect...
Once I get to the game, I'll trade with the people next to me so that we six can sit together or at least in couples, but that doesn't detract from the ridiculous and completely negative attitude of the H.A.A. Robert Terry...