Word: detractions
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...fact that the action remains largely unseen and the physical effect plays out in our minds only underscores revulsion. However, in most other instances, the brothers resort to heavy-handed imagery. Precariously controlled horses foaming at the mouth and riders driving a carriage bathed in greenish light only detract from prior subtlety. The pathetic fallacy of a blood-red sky looming over London is more lamentable for its clumsy, blatant symbolism than truly revealing...
...other well-placed sources indicated that while Summers does value extracurriculars, he is concerned that they might detract from the academic mission. Summers, they said, feels the academic culture should be stronger, the work tougher and extracurriculars subordinate...
This overzealous connotation is troubling, particularly as a writer, when 800 written words are my only means of expression. I don’t get a picture and 20 minutes to explain my full views. I fear that connotations will either distract from my opinions, or detract by adding unintended meaning to my words, as has already happened. The latter fear is much more threatening, because the reader assumes a leftist feminist political agenda that doesn’t really exist...
Thank you for the special issue that was distributed after the attacks. I was impressed not only by the amazing pictures but also by the fact that you let them speak for themselves--and did not allow ads to detract from the tragedy, giving people a sense of the seriousness of what occurred. CARRIE JENKINS Sterling...
Esensten survived the fall—as did the shofar—and said that the experience did not detract from the meaningfulness...