Sentence examples for they detract from inspiring English sources

But neither did they detract from anything.

Do they detract from the work?

"These habits are unseemly; they detract from Kael's greatness," Tom Carson wrote definitively in LA Weekly.

Home-run contests may be good TV, but they detract from the game itself.

Mr. Murdoch may love newspapers, but they detract from the value of his more attractive TV and satellite businesses.

The band of stone running around the building are being taken off, because they detract from the effect of height.

Yet after the work's premiere, Mahler deleted the subtitles, feeling that they detracted from the overall effect.

And they detracted from the campaign's choreographed message on days when his schedule was heavy on photo opportunities, with little or no room for public remarks.

Colonel Martin said that the Army's dislike of peacekeeping operations had deepened over time, because they detracted from the primary mission of defending the United States.

According to legend, Henri Desgrange, the founder of the Tour de France, disagreed with the very concept of teams in his race; they detracted from the ultimate individual endeavour.

The comments drew wide scorn from establishment Republicans and analysts who said they detracted from Mr. Perry's message just as he was rolling out the most significant policy proposal of his campaign, a new tax plan.