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

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.

Whatever sticklers for old forms and crab-like progress may be found, there is always an overbalancing power.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various

That riser— Afraid of overbalancing in the bulky suit Dane did not lean forward to stare up into the shaft.

From Plague Ship by Norton, Andre