It's not that the world is not fully with us, but that being together around our big Connecticut table, we can eclipse, however briefly, our New Yorker's terrors, worries and sadness with acceptance, banter, teasing, and love.
Dunn believes Britain's medal haul at Rio 2016 can eclipse that of London, when GB's Paralympic athletes won 11 golds to finish third in the standings, and is confident of unearthing the next Jonnie Peacock or Hannah Cockroft.
Peter Jennings worries that by encouraging correspondents to voice their feelings we encourage them to search for those emotional "moments" that can eclipse reporting or ideas.
At the same time, Heidegger is also illustrating the phenomenological dictum that our common-sense view of things—although it appears "natural" and "self-evident"—is often freighted with unnoticed metaphysical presuppositions that can eclipse and so prevent a full encounter with the phenomena we face.
Pluto has large and close moon Charon that can eclipse its tiny Sun for more than an hour.
It needs a national parks populism that can eclipse completely the tired conservative dogma of endless austerity, deregulation and privatization.
In a Dec. 4 column, I wrote about journalists' reflex to impose their own narrative on a race, a dynamic that can eclipse what candidates are actually saying.
"This case is an example of regulators policing payday lenders charging consumers extortionate rates that can eclipse 300%," Hoopes said.
But that can eclipse any deeper, more layered understanding of how an individual attack happened and how to prevent the next one.
While its share of registered voters has fallen to just 24% — less than independent voters — the GOP continues to cobble together a coalition of party faithful and conservative nonconformists in numbers that can eclipse the larger liberal, but more disengaged parts of the state's electorate.
What I remember most, then, about the night that the court ruled was my realization, after I picked up my jaw from the floor, that although nothing could ever undo the injustice done by Bush v. Gore, not even a decision that devastating can eclipse the cumulative decency that perseverance can achieve.
