Word: detracting
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...their more carefully-written choruses (“You’ve Done Enough,” for example) that transcends the painfully typical downbeat power-chording of so many tracks. Stars Look Down is never lackluster in its sound, and the straightforward production does little to enhance or detract from the sound quality. But what it comes down to is that there is no inherent creative drive at work here, or at least that I can detect...
...corporations exploit what was once, believe it or not, a religious tradition for financial gain, marketing the idea of a holiday and the traditions that accompany it and using their advertising to turn the exchange of gifts into an obligation rather than a gesture of love or friendship, they detract from the holiday and from the spirit of the season. It’s enough to make even an eggnog latte taste bitter...
...comforts. He didn't have real friends, didn't particularly care for food, slept fitfully, never took vacations. When he wed, in old age, the marriage seemed like a sideshow, fatherhood an even stranger subplot. "No personal questions," he used to tell reporters, as if any creaturely detail would detract from the power of his cause. Even those closest to Arafat experienced him as a mystery, which was how he liked it. He was a mythomaniac, concealing, inflating and contradicting reality...
Harvard College Democrats President Andy J. Frank ’05 said that trading votes could reduce the Democrats’ concern that third-party candidates detract from Kerry’s totals...
Stein said he expected that the majority of New Deal’s audience would share the founders’ liberal views, but insisted that would not detract from the magazine’s mission. He said what sets New Deal apart from other liberal publications is its focus on fresh ideas and grassroots activism...