Sentence examples for to undermine itself from inspiring English sources
Young gave it marks for ambition, Litt found it moving and daring but also apt to undermine itself.
Under the EU constitution, health services are the province of state legislation; the NHS seems determined to undermine itself by opening its services to European procurement law.
There is no reason because every reason usually given in support of tenure and academic freedom has been shown to undermine itself in the course of this quite clever argument.
In eastern Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall, satire was one of the few channels through which dissent could escape the censor, by using political propaganda to undermine itself.
In five elegant chapters, split between art and matter, or form and content, Boxall explores the way that novelists over the past five centuries have celebrated the ability of the fictional story to undermine itself without losing any of its power.
Epicurus takes to heart a problem Democritus himself recognized (see 2. above), which is that atomist theory threatens to undermine itself if it removes any trust we can place in the evidence of the senses, by claiming that colors, etc. are unreal.
("Journey to the End of the Night") While using language to persuasively undermine itself, this passage captures the essence of Céline's deepest comedy: the energy of the writing versus the sense of utter futility he conveys.
"Washington's move to stifle Huawei will undermine itself," reads a headline.
Lange concedes that Czolbe's materialism, were it to actually be supported by empirical evidence, is in principle able to avoid undermining itself.
To Lange, though, Czolbe has to twist the empirical evidence, and so Czolbe's materialism ultimately does undermine itself.
Mary is itself a novel of sensibility and Wollstonecraft attempts to use the tropes of that genre to undermine sentimentalism itself, a philosophy she believed was damaging to women because it encouraged them to rely overmuch on their emotions.
