Sentence examples for undermine himself from inspiring English sources

He has tended to undermine himself.

But he also did some curious things to undermine himself.

And he's melancholic too, so torn up about success that you begin to worry he'll undermine himself.

Corbyn had not only timed his 24 non-revenge non-reshuffle perfectly to undermine himself, but then came the advice session.

He has struggled in recent days to turn his campaign back to issues like rising Medicaid costs and property taxes, only to undermine himself with controversies of his own making, like the furor last week over his comments about gay pride parades.

The crude familiarity in the way L.B.J. made a spectacle of himself with his dogs — the ear incident occurred when he was displaying them to the press — was shocking, but slightly mesmerizing, an echo of the way he used to bully and cajole legislators, and sometimes undermine himself.

Even Mr. Sarrazin's supporters said that he had undermined himself with his comment about Jews.

And yet he undermined himself in every self-intoxicated gesture and self-adoring rhetorical turn.

But he undermined himself at every turn; his bullying was one reason why he was ousted in a 1964 coup.

Unfortunately, Goldhagen undermines himself by, among other things, allowing his anger to get the best of him.

I think that's fair; readers use the label because they see Seth as always undermining himself.