Word: overshadowment
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...that life is to end obviously predominates, but practical problems are not necessarily entirely eclipsed. Many people have so strong a sense of responsibility toward their work and their dependents that inability to fulfill their undertakings and make provision for their families' needs produces anxiety and worry that overshadow death itself. If such people are allowed time to settle their affairs and provide for their families, they may gain a peace of mind that makes their remaining time a happy one." Or at least less unhappy...
With other Kennedy acquaintances of the time, Holcombe thought that Jack's brother would overshadow him. Joe was the personality kid who wanted to be President, while Jack, like many another action of a well heeled family, had interests that tended to detract from politics and academics...
...hard to assess an increase in productivity in services. Another is that the real value of a good doctor or a good teacher is hard to translate into dollars and cents. Better measurements are needed, so that the emphasis on production statistics will not bulk so large as to overshadow the fastest-growing sector of the nation's business...
...spiritual fortress of the combined houses of Barcelona and Aragon, and the resting place of their heroes. A century later, Poblet was a focal point of Catalonia's losing war with Castile. Philip II, Hapsburg heir to the entire peninsula, built El Escorial, near Madrid, partly to overshadow the relatively provincial pantheon at Poblet. The venerable monastery fell from being a seat of kings to the function of being a place of refuge. In 1835 an anti-monastic revolution swept all Spain. Poblet's monks fled, leaving the monastery to live on in a sort of half existence...
...issues are astir, and no dominant personality such as F.D.R. or Ike, no overriding emergency such as World War or Great Depression looms on the November horizon to overshadow them. A historian of U.S. presidential elections might well have to go back to 1012, with its clashing tides of opinion on tariffs and regulation of Big Business, to find a presidential contest in which issues were as significant as they promise to be in 1060. So far no hopeful in either party has nailed together a complete issue platform (the closest: New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller - TIME...