Word: overshadowed
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...allowing this public anger and concern to go unaddressed, the Church is letting the misdeeds of an unfortunate few overshadow the good to which a vast majority of Catholic priests dedicate their lives, not to mention tarnish the reputation of their honorable profession. Rather than take special care of the offending priests—as Law did for almost half a century—the Church should be distancing itself from their sins. Obviously the institution’s current actions aren’t satisfying to the public, with demonstrations and waning church attendance, and now with the murder...
Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist whose ambitions for his amateur band far overshadow his merely adequate musical abilities. After a typically disastrous bar gig, Finn is thrown out of the band, rendering him even less capable of paying the rent that he owes his substitute teacher roommate. But the God of Rock, to whom Finn seems to pray regularly, has bigger plans for his disciple and grants him a subbing job at a prestigious private school. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers...
...normalcy that is most striking here. After a few weeks here, I was already convinced that all the shocked “why would you want to go there” people had to be shortsighted, and wrong. As Bosnians have argued to me, the everyday rhythms of life overshadow the problems of the past. It is these cultural gems that I am hesitant to share with spoiled American worryworts who only travel with guarantees of hot expatriates or controversial thesis research. I am not sure if they have earned this hidden spot...
...question of what kind of assistance the United States will provide in Liberia continued to overshadow the Bush tour. Once again, he called on President Charles Taylor to leave. At one point, the president appeared to inch closer toward military involvement, saying that the U.S. would "participate" in the peace keeping process, but then insisted that he had not made up his mind on what form that participation would take. Only after he receives a report from a Pentagon team that arrived in Monrovia on Monday to assess the need for assistance, will he make his decision, say White House...
Laura Garwin ’77, director of research affairs for the Bauer Center, says the more comprehensive approach to understanding how DNA directs the functions of the cell should not overshadow the importance of the reductionist approach used so successfully by Watson and Crick, and thousands of others...