Word: overshadows
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...Jong Il's idiosyncrasies can overshadow his atrociousness. With his bouffant hair, platform shoes, "pleasure groups" of attractive young women, and lusty appetite for fine wine and sushi, the North Korean dictator sometimes comes across more like a movie villain than a true menace. In Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea, veteran journalist Jasper Becker dutifully recounts the strange tales of Kim's extravagance. But the author is less concerned with the Dear Leader's personality quirks than with the murder and misery under Kim's brutal rule. To Becker, Kim Jong...
...mother BB (short for Betty Beauchamp) lives on the place, growing more gaga and malevolent by the day. Worse, Younger Sister Josie arrives from New York City for a Christmas visit, along with her son Alex and her still smoldering passion for Liz's husband. Naturally, family feuds overshadow all those exotic wallabies, kangaroos and kookaburras. But not before Murdoch turns a few deft landscapes and some surprisingly sympathetic portraits of the men trapped in a female fantasy...
...imagery from all over had made him another brand name in Boone's stable. But only Schnabel has actually launched a plausible career for himself as a director. Although he still exhibits art and had a large retrospective in Frankfurt last year, his next movie project is likely to overshadow anything he has done lately for a gallery. His adaptation of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the memoir of a French magazine editor left paralyzed by a stroke, is scheduled to star Johnny Depp...
Summers deserves part of the blame for allowing his political comments to overshadow his academic commitments. But the Faculty will deserve even more if it wastes its energies in the same way. What Summers thinks about statistical variations in scientific ability is not as important as what he thinks about Allston or curricular reform, and these issues are lost amid the rancor. According to Wednesday’s Crimson, the two main docket items at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting—the progress of the Curricular Review, and a letter from the Dean of the Faculty setting...
...surrounding the Nativity, the central and essential one is Jesus' birth to a woman who had "never known a man." In Luke, the angel Gabriel explains to Mary about her son's conception as follows: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." Although neither of the Nativities marks a moment for the beginning of her ensuing pregnancy, Christians have long assumed it followed directly upon her "Let it be" response...