In his last solo, "Utsuri: Reflection (From the Eikon to the Image)," Mr. Amagatsu's calm is vitiated by arms with a mind of their own.
Nor was he eager to discuss his own private life, with its broken marriages and brief, unhappy fling with Iris Murdoch at Oxford itself vitiated by the fact that, in wartime, he could not tell her what he was doing.
It notes the Latin root vitium means "fault, vice," and defines it first as "to make faulty or defective" with a quotation from William Styron: "The comic impact is vitiated by obvious haste".
Brzezinski's is full of wonkish detail and some truly leaden language: "... with the potential international benefits of the foregoing unfortunately vitiated by the cumulatively destructive consequences of continued and maybe even somewhat expanded.... " Kagan prefers to paint with a broad brush, sprinkling a memorable metaphor here, a striking simile there.
Starting with the Commonwealth Games and the 2G spectrum sales, corruption charges have vitiated India's business ethos.
Workers remain disgusted by Goldman Sachs, not because of the ways in which Dodd Frank has been vitiated, but because they don't have the time they want to spend with their kids or the savings to safely see them through college.
Officials here say that in a showdown with the United States, the deterrent effect of China's small nuclear force, which includes perhaps 20 long-range missiles, would be vitiated by the American plan.
After the trials, Turkey's secular élite was completely vitiated.
Will this be pure Ludlum, or something slightly vitiated?
And with that Colombia finds itself suddenly contemplating a wide-open election.The court ruled by seven to two that the re-election law would have violated the spirit of the constitution as well as being vitiated by irregularities and "substantial violations of democratic principles".
