Word: overshadowment
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...typed resume, have it reproduced by photo-offset. Beware of using too small type or reducing a typed resume, as you may also reduce your readership. Use white or ecru paper with matching envelopes and paper for your cover letters. Don't use bright-colored paper-it will overshadow your message and is more likely to land in the waste basket...
...Hurt by an erratic offense and shoddy tackling on defense, the Harvard football team falls to Yale, 23-13. Two blocked punts, four delay-of-game penalties and an anemic 19 yards passing overshadow shining individual performances from sophomore quarterback Mike Giardi and junior runing back Robb Hirsch...
...possibility of a vocal response that has many ROTC students concerned about the future. The students fear that the fiery rhetoric over scholarship money and gay rights will overshadow the value of a military training program...
Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...
Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of , the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...