Word: overshadowing
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Painting dominates the exhibition. Calligraphy is also well represented. These two categories overshadow the bronzes, jade, ceramics, tapestry and embroidery. It is in the landscape painting and calligraphy that I feel the exhibit really surpasses the Boston Museum's own fine collection...
...team's offense was clicking well last night, it certainly did not overshadow the defense. After those first two B.C. goals, the squad never let down once. Of course Wood used the post to stop a few shots and the tip of his skate to kick away two or three others, but that's expected from an outstanding goalie...
...must shape the attitude of the cadets toward the academic. We mustn't let the things they like to do, the leadership program and athletics, overshadow their education in the arts, sciences and humanities," says Spivey. "I have friends who have said, 'Little Pete is an absolute hellion and I just don't know what to do with him.' Well, I won't take little Pete any more than Exeter or Andover will." Then why be military at all? "Discipline is essential to the learning situation,'' says Spivey. "Without it there would...
...academic leanings of 1961 did not by any means overshadow the class's athletic achievements. During the freshman year, the various squads gave notice of future prowess by winning 106 games or meets, losing 37 and tying 2. Four years later, varsity squads, anchored by members of 1961, achieved an enviable 137-59-3 record, including Ivy League champions in hockey and outstanding squash, track, lacrosse, and tennis teams. Although the Yale football and swimming juggernauts could not be stopped in 1960-61, other teams compiled eminently satisfactory records against Yale. In 1958, the lightweight crew won the Thames Challenge...
...Oedipus's driving, primitive strength saves it just as the chorus's menacing force did the performance last night. Long 9/8 measures contrast with abrupt triplets to overshadow with a barbaric grandeur the occasional lapses of style. Forbes even took the chorus too far in this direction, for after a rather stale opening the melodic line became jerky; but this flaw disappeared when the chorus greeted Creon and Tiresias with excellent dynamic control and superb forcefulness...