Word: overshadowing
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...like Gimme Shelter. Its attempt to abstract from its music, and the variety of sounds it is able to utilize, mark it as an important work. What makes it excellent, and almost great, is its ability to channel the volatility and emotion of the music, without allowing sound to overshadow the purpose of the film...
...study of English schoolboy life he made in 1969. When I last saw If..., the night before the world premiere of O Lucky Man!, I felt that the more sensational aspects of the film's ending -- in quasi-surrealism with a chic nihilistic attitude toward revolution -- were beginning to overshadow the basic insight and vitality found in the earlier parts of the film. Anderson's talents as a director of actors still seemed considerable, and the photographic images he produced in collaboration with the Czech cinematographer, Miroslav Ondricek, seemed as striking as when they first appeared, but the fuzzy radicalism...
...rapport and concern for the enjoyment of the crowd can cause problems, for the group has no real desire to remain a group for bars. The expertise they exhibit and pains they take to make their Beach Boys and oldies selections as true to the original as possible can overshadow their talent for original work...
...does not overshadow the other players. They perform together with the intuitive affinity of a fine string quartet. As the wife and mother, Constance Cummings drifts into her morphine reverie like a child dozing off to a bedtime story. Her girlish monologue on how she once yearned to become a nun is such a palpable image of the unburied past that it seems to hover on the stage after she leaves it. The role has never been played more affectingly. As the older brother, Denis Quilley is a sportive charmer with an agile, mocking humor, a man of many-hued...
...chances. Its hopes is that decadence can be at once entertaining and instructive, and that its historical milieu can provide a poignant contrast to the lives of its characters. The danger is that the decadence will shine forth as either bogus or overwhelming, and that the historical setting will overshadow the characters poised before it. Cabaret gambles on the trade and, I fear, it loses. But though it fails to execute the move completely it's still one of the deftest entertainments around...