Mr. Said is a master of overstatement whose numbing invective often vitiates his arguments.
Arguably, it vitiated the presentation of coherent and comprehensive evidence and advice to policymakers; I often had the impression that policymakers could, on the contrary, play different "experts" off each other.
But I feel that their presentation has been often deplorable and that as a science, a body of knowledge, it is definitely being vitiated by a dogmatic policy.
It has vitiated anti-trust laws.
After the trials, Turkey's secular élite was completely vitiated.
In financial terms, the deal was vitiated from the outset.
Will this be pure Ludlum, or something slightly vitiated?
By the time Mr. Rosei is finished, all its connotations have been intriguingly vitiated.
If, instead, he becomes the cabinet champion and public spokesman for his department, democracy is vitiated.
But ultimately religious differences between Scottish Presbyterians and English Independents vitiated the alliance.
