At the same time, of course, Ball's method forbids the realistic view by undermining any reality on which it might be based.
He constantly plays with the conventions of the genre, making the characters' emotions real, but then, without undermining their reality, suddenly liberating them into high camp, as if they had been longing all along to be in an operetta.
Each of the topics Rose and Oakley discuss in detail drives home the same point: we start out thinking that what seems to be a common biological pattern should have a common causal process-level explanation, and wind up discovering a variety of processes, undermining the reality of pattern.
They catch you unawares and undermine everyday reality.
Fed officials argue that the impact will endure so long as the assets remain in the Fed's portfolio, but they acknowledge that perceptions could undermine that reality.
Nietzsche, for example, explicitly holds that God does not exist, but also claims that God's non-existence undermines the reality of traditional western morality.
All in all, considering that Demand Media doesn't have a big top-10 stand alone property, I can understand why it takes the search arbitrage approach, but AOL's efforts undermine the reality that despite its sliding traffic from ISP users, it has a large audience base and if it produced compelling content, then it would be able to retain and grow that base.
Hence, even if we were to grant that this is indeed the best of all possible worlds and Hume clearly takes the view that we have no reason to suppose that it is (D, 113 4; EU, 11.15 22/137 42)—this would do nothing to undermine the reality of the distinction we draw between good and evil (i.e. as experienced on the basis of "the natural sentiments of the human mind": EU, 8.35/103).
In a reversal of the way Jewish history and tradition has been understood for many centuries, the Zionist animus against Arabs and their religion has now caused some fanatical Jews to undermine the reality of the past.
Comments like Cornette's on Twitter, he suggests, undermine that reality and draw negative response from those unwilling to accept members of the LGBT community as people and athletes.
