Sentence examples for feels undermined from inspiring English sources

With Steadman taking production duties, the album's ambition is palpable; and yet that ambition feels undermined by his diffidence as a singer, the lack of blood and pulse in his lyrics, the marshmallow softness of his voice.

The album ends with Quicksand, a song on which a relatively positive, life-must-go-on sentiment – "Hackle this darkness/ Up to the light … When we're broken we are whole" – feels undermined by its nervous rhythm.

Former LA Law golden boy Corbin Bernsen glowers as Shawn's exasperated father; meanwhile, Timothy Omundson (Eli from Xena: Warrior Princess no less) injects some weird energy into what could have been a thankless role – the straight-as-an-arrow detective who feels undermined by Shawn's success.

People feeling squeezed by a jealous line of questioning and assumptions will also feel undermined, badgered and frustrated.

Border Patrol agents felt undermined.

Many feel undermined by such an appointment.

In Tripoli, hard-liners seethe that Libya gave away the store, while the reformers feel undermined.

To feel undermined by a system that's available to citizens when they feel wronged by the state displays a serious lack of confidence.

She started falling out with the group after their charismatic leader made a pass at her that she felt undermined their cause: "This was supposed to be different.

He conveyed to him, I'm told, that he felt undermined by Abramson's failure to let him know where Gibson would be in the Times hierarchy.

Even those graduating, who would not be affected by the decision, took a firm stance against the proposal which they felt undermined everything the school stood for.