However, the total savings were slightly undercut by a marked increase in discretionary housing payments (DHP).
Slightly undercutting his conviction is the reality that no one – at Credit Suisse or any other bank – is going to jail.
Within the premium product categories where Apple is most at home though, comparable devices often do no better than match or slightly undercut Apple's prices.
The fact that you are too urbane to take the pool seriously is only slightly undercut by your knowledge that Vermont's nickname is the Catamounts.
Jonathan Kent, the production's director, said that Ms. Staunton was distinctive for "an ebullience of spirit that is slightly undercut by a melancholy".
It is slightly undercut by the disclaimer that follows: "That's Eddie Eagle's fundamental, non-judgmental public-safety message"."Non-judgmental" seems a strange word to use in this context.
Such was the situation in 1634 when he painted "Pines and Rock," slightly undercutting the traditional emblem of steadfastness and endurance with a rueful, go-with-the-flow inscription: "Even if I turned into rock, I wouldn't be obstinate".
That prediction lends the scene an ominous weight here, though it's slightly undercut by the fact that Ray spends some of his final moments trying to send a "goodbye" audio message to Chad via email.
The gravity of the moment was slightly undercut, however, by Lord Mandelson's jacket, a cream linen number that looked as if he were heading off for a whisky sour at a provincial hotel rather than to a meeting of the government's "Cobra" emergency committee.
