Word: overshadowing
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...reason in this," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The decision to fire Yevgeny Primakov is based entirely on Yeltsin's emotions -- his irritation at the prime minister's independence and lack of deference to him, and Yeltsin's characteristic vindictiveness toward anyone who threatens to overshadow him." Of course it might also be intended as a reminder to the legislature, which has begun impeachment proceedings against Yeltsin, of the president's almost czarist constitutional powers and his apparently boundless capacity for wacky political behavior...
...purpose of last weekend's conference, which I think it fulfilled, was to educate ourselves and others in the community of the many very complicated issues faced by the labor movement.. The formation of the NSLA should not overshadow the importance of the conversations that took place in the conference's workshops and panels. WILL ERICKSON '00-'01 April 20, 1999 The writer is a member of the PLSM...
...purpose of last weekend's conference, which I think it fulfilled, was to educate ourselves and others in the community of the many very complicated issues faced by the labor movement.. The formation of the NSLA should not overshadow the importance of the conversations that took place in the conference's workshops and panels...
...virtually every lighting technique possible, McGee incorporates backlights, sidelights, audience-sweeping spotlights, an overwhelming carousels of colors, shadows, purple moons and spinning pinwheels of light to illuminate every angle and curve of the bodies pulsating on the stage. At moments, the lights are so grandiose that they threaten to overshadow the dancers themselves; for the most part, however, McGee has a keen eye for tasteful spectacle and a smart awareness of all the beautiful ways to illuminate moving bodies...
...while his literary production grew and he became a Nobel Laureate and one of the most important literary influences of the 20th century, Hemingway's public persona expanded as well, and threatened even to overshadow the writing: Hemingway the brave idealist, the avid fisherman, the boxer. The mythic man impinged on the literary production all the more so because his poise and his life ran together--some would say to the extent that the discussion of one can not help but bleed into a discussion of the other. There was a sportsman's code to which he held himself...