But this somehow detracts from the tragedy of her life.
There is a sense, also, that if JR were to reveal his name or speak more about his background, this would somehow detract from his work.
Laing wrote: "What I won't take is a suggestion that because I'm 'attractive', white and a woman it somehow detracts from the credibility and substance of the news service I work for".
Model of the moment Arizona Muse wearing a khaki trouser suit fills the screen again but the mundane sound of a number 38's engine somehow detracts from the impact of the tailored elegance.
That the presence of a compressor somehow detracts from the mechanical rightness of the naturally aspirated 911s.
So is this the nature of progress, or does this tech frenzy somehow detract from the purity of the game?
We believe that gray hair on a woman somehow detracts from what passes for beauty because we are fed a steady diet of women in their forties, fifties, and well beyond who don't have one gray hair and are held up as icons of beauty.
His gray-streaked hair, randomly pulled back in a pony tail, and his mismatched sports clothes (buckle boots, mountaineer pants), defy any sense of chic, somehow without detracting from his leonine good looks.
The angled shape of the heel somehow works to detract from the calves, making them appear slimmer.
Even the fact that much of the story is set on a spaceship and is therefore heavy on the kind of Dr Who -type noises made by 10-year-old boys somehow doesn't detract.
