But growing foreclosure-related fears overshadowed his bank's latest decent results.
Analysts say that the union's obsession with striking political, geographical and ideological balances, coupled with the egos of national politicians who fear being overshadowed, has hamstrung the selection for new presidential and foreign policy posts.
Apparently Mr. Gore fears being overshadowed, or casting new light on old White House scandals, or both.
Over the last couple of years, that fear has been overshadowed by another fear, or more precisely, by another reality: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, party leader and prime minister in the first years of AKP rule and president since 2014, became an increasingly authoritarian leader.
And those who care more than anything else about the perennial quest to transform the world into a powerful reflection of that which is sacred cannot afford to allow even a moment of doubt or fear to overshadow their soul.
They fear that Slovakia, overshadowed for centuries by the more prosperous Czechs, will be swallowed up in a vast union -- its 5.4 million people a drop in an ocean of the union's 450 million.
Instead, Marymount's brochures promote the school as a training ground for leadership and power, where women can speak out in class without fear of being overshadowed by men.
Asked by Bill O'Reilly why he did not like to seek advice from his father — the only other American president who went to war with Saddam — W. offered a nonsensical answer that simply underscored his perpetual fear of being overshadowed by his dad.
In a third Democratic debate that many feared would be overshadowed by allegations of dirty tricks between the campaigns, the two frontrunners instead clashed more fiercely than usual on policy issues that will define the primary battle in the state.
He found coming up with perfectly logical puzzles increasingly mentally draining; and he feared that Holmes overshadowed all his other writings, in particular his historical novels, on which he spent years working and which he thought would earn him a place in the pantheon of writers.
