Word: complementing
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...essential difference then, between novels and film is that one is conceptual and time-oriented, while the other is perceptual and space-oriented. The two media only rarely complement each other. Andre Bazin, the French film critic, thought that while films "vulgarized" novels they served a useful purpose because they led people to read the books. But these days it's not too hard to imagine college students who are caught up in the film-as-film trip using films made from novels as entertaining forms of learning. All they have to do is skip the reading and use them...
...Sour Mash Boys and the Waylors complement each other--the famous part of the bill practiced and calm and in an easy category by itself, the local group sharp with nervous potential and playing straight conventional country. It's amazing that a truly quintessential country and the western band like John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys could have risen up in a town where people's idea of a real cowboy bard is James Taylor. But Cambridge isn't entirely unfriendly terrain for a pure and healthy country music to grow in, for these musicians are students...
Casting hoop squads is not casting dice, and perhaps grouping platoons of guards and forwards that complement each other and attack the enemy's sore spots would shift the emphasis from individual starting slots to final scoreboard tallies...
...military forces of the Soviet Union. Given that economy as well as strength is desired, the United States should seek the best officers possible for our armed forces. The best officers combine leadership and discipline with humanitarian instincts. Harvard has an obligation to educate men and women to complement the officers of the military academies. We need Marshalls as well as Pattons...
...absorbed by the ramifications of his cutting-keen artistic conscience. In choosing him in the year of The Eye of the Storm, his ninth novel, the panel also showed a sentiment in favor of the "old-fashioned" novel-that is, a carefully crafted fictional edifice with a full complement of realistic detail and psychological probing. His newest book certainly has alj, that, but it is a pallid creation that often makes the reader wish -respectfully but vehemently-that the storm would blow every bit of it away...