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overbalancing



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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

But only for a moment did the impression of horns overbalancing body remain with Gale.

From Desert Gold by Zane Grey

The effect on the poor youth was to cause him to stumble, and instead of making him lift better, made him rest his weight on the stone, thus overbalancing it, and bringing it down.

From The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story by Arthur Twidle

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 Mrs. Humphry Ward


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