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Examples of overshadow
overshadow
It outmuscles traditional helicopters and jets the way Hummers overshadow jeeps.
From the businessweek.com
Perhaps the Packers figured Rosenfels was too good and might overshadow Rodgers.
From the jsonline.com
His musical catalogue still cannot overshadow his wildly successful film career.
From the delawareonline.com
Once more, though, real-life events in January will overshadow the TV landscape.
From the abcnews.go.com
Too few of them and the priorities they highlight overshadow other worthy goals.
From the economist.com
A classic instance of a writer allowing his public image to overshadow his work.
From the guardian.co.uk
Posterity's revenge on writers who overshadow it is to turn them into monuments.
From the time.com
Lhuillier excels in making clothes that don't overshadow the women wearing them.
From the latimes.com
After 1742 political motives began to overshadow the desire for commercial gain.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness"
- Shadow: make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"
- Cast a shadow upon; "The tall tree overshadowed the house"
- To obscure something by casting a shadow; To dominate something and make it seem insignificant
- (Overshadowing) In respondent conditioning, if two neutral or conditioned stimuli are used simultaneously in conditioning an association with an unconditioned stimulus and only one becomes conditioned while the other does not, we would say that the successfully conditioned stimulus overshadowed ...
- (Over-shadowing) The effect of two signals of different intensity being applied together, such that only the most intense will result in a learned response (Hull, 1943).
- (Overshadowing) Generally used in references to the spiritual influence exercised by a higher being upon a lower, as in the case of an excarnate buddha, who is said to overshadow and thus to inspire or enlighten living men on earth.
- (Overshadowing) State of very light trance which is often confused with transfiguration.
- (Overshadowing) The effect of a development or building on the amount of natural light presently enjoyed by a neighbouring property, resulting in a shadow being cast over that neighbouring property.
