overbalancing

Example Sentences

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But he is in danger of overbalancing the entire film: this is a rock’n’roll performance from someone who is usually happier with piano sonatas.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2021

Levin’s playing was heavy-handed and shapeless, chugging mechanically along and sometimes overbalancing Hahn’s more restrained, often vibratoless violin lines.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2016

He leaped, with the words, to the door, lunging against it, sending it crashing back so that it smashed against the wall, overbalancing some boxes that reposed on a shelf and sending them clattering.

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

The partial success of his Haverhill store, to an extent overbalancing the initial failure in Boston, had brought him into the metropolis of America, the city of wider, if indeed not unlimited opportunity.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward

Then with a swing the man threw the child over his shoulder and on to his back, staggering and nearly overbalancing himself in the act.

From Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel by Dadd, Frank