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

This principle of overbalancing the exciting coils is shown on diagram, Fig.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 by Various

The selfish person who does operate the laws, does so by overbalancing his selfishness with some other great virtue.

From The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It by Bush, David V.

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