Sentence examples for vitiate it from inspiring English sources

But the politicization of usage contributes to its trivialization, and tends to vitiate it as an exercise in intellectual discrimination.

Wasn't it more important to keep the foundation agreement of the summit meeting rather than vitiate it on the composition of a summit?

However, it clearly doesn't vitiate it altogether, since people (and other animals) often don't reverse their preferences.

The maps are notably vague but comply with the law, effectively vitiating it and making a sidewalk accident just about anywhere in the city a lawsuit waiting to be filed.

The awareness that "it's only a movie" doesn't vitiate its power over a viewer's feelings.

This limitation does not, however, vitiate its value in a biomonitoring program.

The blundering motel scenes in which they attempt to do so have a brief, brutal power that promises much, but Cianfrance doesn't push it to its extremes; rather, he drops it, vitiates its force in a cut, to events hours later, in which trivial screenplay incidents push the plot to his desired (but utterly artificial) conclusions.

I won't spoil this remarkable scene, which sketches the self-abasing humiliations arising from the oppressive and thoughtless norms of corporate ladder-climbing, except to say that it realizes Ade's intentions with maximal clarity and minimal psychology; it's a powerful setup that vitiates its power in its flattened execution.

I think that the movie has a sentimental streak that somewhat vitiates its (otherwise formidable) emotional and intellectual force: the protagonists take significant risks in launching their do-it-yourself detective adventure, but there isn't much sense of the emotional risks involved in friendship and intimacy themselves.

Though that goes some way to vitiate Fade, it doesn't undermine the play completely.

The overuse of bold to modify Godwin's word vitiates its potency.