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“Pillows are ‘light,’ ‘fluffy,’ and may detract from our message,” she wrote.

His conservatism, which is more of a cultural than political kidney, seems to fascinate, delight or detract critics.

Abortion-rights advocates by no means seek to detract from LGBT movement or begrudge it victories.

But the religious iconography did not detract from the excitement brewing in the room.

Clarence Thomas had 48 votes against him, a fact that does not, alas, detract a whit from his votes and opinions.

She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.

And to confirmeYour grace towards me, against all such as may Detract my actions, and life hereafter,I now preferre it to you.

It does not detract from his merits, it rather adds thereto, that his brush was also photographic.

If I add that he is in one respect to be included among the most virulent, I do not necessarily detract from his value.

Nor does it detract from his fame as a man of genius that he did not originate the most profound of his declarations.