Word: overshadow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these things are bad. What I do deplore, however, is that growing emphasis on these devices tends to overshadow the editorial integrity of a magazine. In many instances, it looks to me from the outside as though the business office and the promotion boys have taken over, and that the editor has been consigned to an office down the hall with no carpets, one window, and a pension fund...
...expanded orchestra, including many new faces, and blessed with a huge and excellent string section. The strings found a deserved complement in the virtuosic wind group which pulled off Stravinsky's exacting Symphonies for Wind Instruments with breath-taking precision and intonation. Nor did Mr. Senturia let technical concerns overshadow the equally crucial matters of vitality and awareness which should be the major strengths of any good amateur ensemble...
...Shakespeare is actually the least simpleminded of dramatists, and even this frankly jingoistic exercise in banner-waving is also a subtle, even ambiguous, study of kingship and the attributes required for it. The pep-rally ambience, however, is much more vividly dramatized, and probably tends by its nature to overshadow the "deeper" element. At any rate, the wooing scene was delightful in the Vic version, and the rest was at least pretty good...
Insiders predict that the elements will not respect today's impassioned bout between the traditional rivals. It is said that clouds will overshadow the playing fields and temperatures will settle in the chilly 40's. Light rain or snow may well disturb the stolid comfort of the cheering masses...
...Flexibility. Because the Russians see how they might fight a big war, it does not follow that a big war is what they want. There are other kinds of wars in which they might gain, with less risk to Soviet survival. They have not allowed nuclear weapons to overshadow conventional arms, and have thus retained their enormous superiority to fight non-nuclear wars, big or little. They say publicly that limited nuclear wars are impossible, but Garthoff believes they have, in theory and in practice, the capability of fighting these...