From the excesses of 60s California in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, passing by her study of Miami, through to Fixed Ideas, her essay on 9/11, Didion has dug away at the US for forty years, and she has never let her focus on the factual detract her from chronicling it with remarkable power.
Mrs. Whitman also said her only regret was that the picture would be used by her political adversaries to detract from her efforts to improve Camden's neighborhoods and her steps to overhaul the state police and discourage discrimination by troopers.
Ms. Johnson's frustrations with the city and state bureaucracies, for example, have left her with a sense that the mental-health issue is intractable, a perspective that detracts from her otherwise fine book.
"The girl is pretty, but the Tibetan dark skin detracts from her beauty," a college student from Xian wrote, while an account executive in Changsha proclaimed that "a few rich Tibetans hardly means the whole lot is sophisticated".
"To be fair to King, Bainbridge herself closely equated love, sex and writing … Yet it's hard not to feel that the messy detail detracts from her artistry rather than embellishes it".
Anya's stuff reminds me of Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, Gary Panter, and Jack Kirby, but not in a way that detracts from her work's individuality.
Anya's stuff reminds me of Moscoso, Gary Panter, and Jack Kirby, but not in a way that detracts from her work's individuality.
Rose McIver does a nice job as Susie's younger sister Lindsey Nikki SooHooo, sporting a bizarrely intermittent accent, detracts from her scenes as Susie's guide to the afterlife.
He asked how someone in their 20s, so "sluttishly erotic", could be regarded as a serious actress: wouldn't her "big bosoms" detract from her performance?
Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.
