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 partial success of his Haverhill store, to an extent overbalancing the initial failure in Boston, had brought him into the metropolis of America, the city of wider, if indeed not unlimited opportunity.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward

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

The harder Ted hit, overbalancing himself to put force into the blow, and the less able to recover himself quickly, the easier Bevis warded, and every three knocks gave Ted a rap.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard