Sentence examples for undermines itself from inspiring English sources

Yet the tour-de-force soliloquy goes on much too long, and the music undermines itself.

But the programme undermines itself through glib responses and cheap-shot TV documentary trickery.

He maintained that any attempt to establish a conclusion by rational means ultimately "deconstructs," or logically undermines, itself.

Michael Ignatieff ("A Bungling U.N. Undermines Itself," Op-Ed, May 15) blames United Nations bungling for peacekeeping failures.

But I am capable of making the beautiful thing that folds in on itself, or undermines itself.

The message seems to be that theater is a treacherous illusion, but the piece undermines itself by creating a cartoon-y illusion that is far preferable to its simulacrum of reality.

Is the market constantly undermining itself?

But Continental undermined itself with aggressive lending policies.

If faster growth in America translates into sharply higher bond yields, it could undermine itself.

In this bizarre arena, niceness becomes just one more mode of competition, thereby undermining itself.

The effort was so vigorous that it may have undermined itself somewhat.