What is "detracts"

Usage examples of "detracts".

Darwin’s, except in so far as he has endorsed them and given them publicity, but I do not know that this detracts from their value.

The magnificent feat which he eventually achieved was unhappily tarnished by much that detracts from the splendour that ought to have attended it, but a magnificent feat it must remain.

Whose work in this imperfect world is not tarred and tarnished by something that detracts from its ideal character?

It is so thoroughly suffused and permeated with the glow of mystical romance, the whole atmosphere of the poem is so exquisitely appropriate to the subject, and so marvellously preserved throughout, that our lack of belief in the reality of the scenes presented to us detracts but little from the pleasure afforded by the artistic excellence of its presentment.

It is not a mere inequality and imperfection of style like that which so seriously detracts from the pleasure of reading Byron.

Yet I do not now for a moment feel that she was doing more than she should have been asked to do – not that that detracts from the credit of it.

Worse than that, it detracts from the dignity of the Emperor, The implication is that I-I would choose as my First Minister a mechanical man.

Worse than that, it detracts from the dignity of the Emperor, The implication is that I--I would choose as my First Minister a mechanical man.