Word: detracting
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Alice Faye's return to the screen in the role of an unloved but triumphantly virtuous bride is not likely to add to or detract from her present reputation as a broad-shouldered blonde with a rich, husky voice. She does no singing in this picture, but her speaking voice is richly husky as ever even though she doesn't have much...
...stand in chow lines, sleep in heatless barracks, work in icy offices-and our promotions are subject to approval by WAC officers. We don't wish to detract from G.I. glory or to minimize their sacrifices, but we have shared some of their loneliness and privation and the least we expect from gentlemen is respect...
...only fair to remind PM readers that they have been forbidden to attend this picture, because it undemocratically fawns on royalty. As a mater of fact, there is some too naive wide-eyed astonishment stuff, but not enough to detract from the many laughs of the truly humorous parts...
Carefully Badoglio rehearsed his intention to respect the "untrammeled right of the people of Italy to choose their own form of democratic government when peace is restored." Carefully the Big Three repeated after him their understanding that "nothing can detract from the absolute and untrammeled right of the people of Italy by constitutional means to decide on the democratic form of government they will eventually have...
...things--the dialogue, which is superb, and the acting of all concerned, with top honors going to Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim. The latter, who is continuing where he left off in World War I as the Horrible Hun, plays Marshal Rommel in a way that will not detract at all from the legend of the same name...