Sentences with phrase «overshadowed by some controversy»

The numbers are at least a partial validation of VR's marketplace potential, at a moment when years» worth of hype, and the question of actual consumer interest, have been somewhat overshadowed by controversy.

This year the Academy Awards have almost been overshadowed by the controversy over a lack of diversity in their nominations.

The climate talks have been overshadowed by the controversy of the Polish Government supporting a «coal and climate» conference on the sidelines.

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Other controversies were overshadowed by that of the Olympic logo, however.

Leslie Torres - Rodriguez was named Hartford school superintendent in a unanimous decision by the city school board Tuesday night, capping days of controversy that threatened to overshadow her remarkable ascension to the top.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

Perhaps it is because I was a lot younger or because I look back on 2007 and 2011 through rose - tinted spectacles but I do not recall any of those games being overshadowed by such controversy.

Since its opening in March, the exhibition has been widely heralded for its «political charge» (see for example reviews by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker and Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine), for its impressive diversity of artists included (though I wish this still was not so rare as to be newsworthy), and the controversies surrounding Jordan Wolfson's ultra-graphic Real violence (2017) and of course the Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket (2016), which not only raised highly problematic issues around race and its representation in contemporary American art, censorship, and quite interestingly to me at least, the role of abstraction, also had the unfortunate side effect of overshadowing so many stronger inclusions in this year's iteration.

You talk about the chance to explore the slow - drip but from what I can see you still have a penchant for controversy, for the marginal, the far out, the sexy headline, that often overshadows the day in day out activities, step by step progress, things that add up over time.