How about Plantinga's argument that Darwinism is self-undermining?
Not all of the book is so subversively self-undermining.
Activism is admirable, necessary and self-undermining — the more passionate, the more self-blinding.
And there does seem something self-undermining about that way of structuring your life.
So failing forward may work in the short term but be self-undermining in the long term.
Gizzi's pared-down, bundled-up style, its thrift and self-undermining wit, evokes his neck of the woods.
The cumulative effect is intoxicating, as we follow the life paths of Gosling's self-undermining jazz musician and Stone's eager but tentative actor.
But they were also projecting an impossible and self-undermining wish, because it is only through the confusion and noise of the public sphere that criticism has advanced, discovering its principles and best practices, preserving tradition and embracing the new.
And this uniform, they argued, offers girls the most self-undermining ideals: a girly, sugary, pretty-pretty, passive, flirty image which prepares them for a life of hairdressing and lapdancing.
I have the sense that he disdains the glibness of sound bites, for very good reason but also out of an incorrigible and self-undermining need to rise above politics.
But when a constitutional power atrophies, it's extremely unlikely to be restored through the kind of last-minute, poorly-thought-out, and self-undermining approach that the White House has taken in this case.
