becloud

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His always quiet, unassuming demeanor beclouds the brilliance of his intellect.

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Benjamin Britten's music is filled with a mystic intensity that illuminates rather than beclouds the libretto, which was beautifully crafted by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier from Melville's tale of an innocent's execution.

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There is in short a vast difference between humiliation and the reality that Nixon's oratory only beclouds.

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Most men of much kindly feeling are controlled by this sentiment against their judgment, or rather that sentiment beclouds their judgment.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.

Kant rightly maintains that the admixture of egoistic motives beclouds the purity of the disposition, and consequently diminishes its moral worth.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard