However, he thought that when it came to Marx's writings, the Hegelian "speculative form … tiresomely intrudes on the content of some parts of the work to the disadvantage of its effectiveness" and undermines the effect of the "astounding" display of detailed empirical evidence (Lange 1894a, 248).
She is successful to a degree, but the tiles themselves somewhat undermine the effect.
Perhaps no one has done more to undermine the effect of forced confessions than Ebrahim Nabavi, an exiled Iranian satirist who has released a parody confession video.
As a young man, he sang with a degree of self-consciousness and uncertainty that sometimes undermined the effect of a song.
Tiny things undermine the effect here – the irrelevant nautical associations of crows' nests; the ugly improbability of a bruised, "monstrous", "blackish purple moon" (the translators have chosen the wrong dictionary alternatives between enormous and monstrous, and crimson and purple).
This undermines the effect of the Brady law, which requires background checks on handgun buyers, but only from licensed dealers, says a study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
After Gatsby is shot and killed, Nick's wistfully romantic aria ("Held by the West"), sung to the jaded Jordan, undermines the effect of Gatsby's long soliloquy, delivered just before his death.
To please foreign investors, who have been put off by a capricious and at times extortionate tax regime, he promised to end much-disliked retrospective taxes (though he undermined the effect with vague talk of a committee to oversee things).
Whenever Bush got in a line about Trump — "he's a chaos candidate"; "Donald, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the Presidency" — his features gathered into an expression of smug cheer, which undermined the effect.
