Sentence examples for somewhat self-defeating from inspiring English sources
This strikes me as somewhat self-defeating and fundamentally illogical.
He begins with a somewhat self-defeating statement: despite its enormous popularity and the great proliferation of dodo literature, we know almost nothing about the bird itself.
After all, trying to get water to a real refugee camp in Darfur is neither fun nor easy, and the game may be honestly attempting to reflect this – which is both fair enough and somewhat self-defeating.
(He also included this somewhat self-defeating disclaimer: "Dr. Edwards has worked on lead in water issues for 30 years — we do not recommend that anyone try this at home"). Before and after bathing, he wrote, he took three sequential urine samples for testing.
Their popularity might derive from a residual desire to believe in an authoritative critical consensus (although this seems less plausible by the day) or from a more pragmatic need to discover new work or from the understandable, if somewhat self-defeating, impulse to have something to rail against.
From his corner, after the ninth, came an urgent and somewhat self-defeating command: "Everyone calm down!" In the tenth, McGregor kept staggering and Mayweather kept punching, and eventually the referee decided that, while most viewers surely wanted to see McGregor suffer some more, and possibly recover, he himself did not.
