Sentence examples for undone himself from inspiring English sources

Did the city's grandees renege on the deal, reckoning that by flirting with polytheism Muhammad had undone himself in the eyes of his followers?

Chip Cravaack, a Republican who defeated veteran Representative Jim Oberstar in Minnesota's Eighth District, was a bit undone himself by his police escort.

The student was tangled up and couldn't get undone from himself.

By the time of Graceland, though, Simon finds himself undone, and craving some kind of salvation.

Next, presumably, we'll get an adaptation of I Married a Communist, Roth's tale of a fiery Jewish radical who finds himself undone by his celebrity wife.

But Kepesh finds himself undone; tripped up in late-middle age by the most bourgeois of instincts, jealousy and possessiveness".The eternal problem of attachment.

McCain's admirable loyalty to his fellow-prisoners — and, by extension, to the nation — was in no way undone, as he himself feared, by his having been overwhelmed by torture.

The blogging Lancashire copper who had written of the furious elation he felt at getting his man finally found himself undone by someone else's detective work; the winner of this year's Orwell blogging prize was handed a written warning from his superiors for sharing his private thoughts with the online public.

In a typical confrontation between James Bond and a villain, for example, the bad guy will try to provoke Bond's irrational anger; Bond, however, is possessed of a stoic virilitas, and in the end the villain is himself undone by one of his perverse and manly appetites (a semi-erotic desire to see his enemy eaten by sharks, say).

Or when Roth said that after his first marriage he felt himself coming undone and so, "psychoanalysis befell me".

And Udo himself comes undone as he loses a game of "Third Reich" — which is like Risk for grown-ups — to a mysterious burn victim who rents pedal boats.