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

The selfish person who does operate the laws, does so by overbalancing his selfishness with some other great virtue.

From The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It by Bush, David V.

Coryston was small, delicately finished, a whimsical snippet of a man—on wires—never at ease—the piled fair hair overbalancing the face and the small, sarcastic chin.

From The Coryston Family A Novel by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

There is just enough excitement attending these scouting expeditions to make them a real pleasure, overbalancing the labor attendant upon them.

From The Discovery of Yellowstone Park by Langford, Nathaniel Pitt