There's something incredibly powerful about shared musical experiences with other people, and equally there's something horribly distracting and undermining about hearing music with someone who seems to be deaf to what's going on.
It undermined illusions about art's purity while confirming its robust inevitability.
It is not merely Robshaw who will be feeling undermined; what about Tom Youngs and England's other hooking contenders?
The new science of geology undermined assumptions about the age of the Earth, introducing into Western thought the idea of deep time.
In fact denying the inevitable has undermined pledges about solvent governments.Instead of austerity and pretence, a credible rescue should start with growth and, where it is unavoidable, a serious restructuring of debt.
The visual paradox of these highly un-American homosocial interactions planted seeds of doubt in my mind: If the sureness of my religious superiority could be undermined, what about my sexuality?
Although they largely accepted the need to limit family size, the traditional belief that having more children would provide labour and security in future years partly undermined messages about the benefits of smaller families.
He sends Liz Jones, who writes 2,000 words about how undermined she felt about there not being a photograph of herself.
Some clinicians may be worried about their monopoly being undermined and concerned about their personal responsibility.
Market perceptions of bank creditworthiness undermined by concerns about sovereigns whose debt banks hold.
