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 man of lower eminence has some one or more faculties developed out of all proportion to the rest, with the natural result of occasionally overbalancing him.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

A few growers would doubtless escape absolute destruction and these, as long as their orchards lasted, would demand a price overbalancing many times the saving the consumer made temporarily while he was destroying the industry.

From Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by Allen, Edward Tyson

The old pirate threw himself back with all his might, in the hopes of overbalancing the man whose arm he held, and dragging him with him.

From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.