overrides

The question today is whether “the picture” may be so powerful that it overrides critical judgments about what we are seeing.

His anger over her death (which movingly spills out every dozen pages or so) overrides his desire to “move on” from her death.

That is an excellent rule in its way, and very superior to an abstract rule which neglects or overrides experience.

The general intent overrides all mere technical and grammatical rules of construction.

The man who overrides you will as often be pursuing a tactic as he cajoles you.

There is an individuality in the cathedral of Paris that overrides every criticism.

It overrides our formal resolutions, our conscious decisions.