Word: undercutting
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...sickly counterpart, the “fleshly” Reginald, was well cast to satirize Oscar Wilde. Yet Kimmey’s permanent grimace was distracting, as were the mock Grecian poses and the excessive facial expressions of the actors. The overacting made the satire feel forced and slightly undercut the humor of the show. At times, it seemed that the orchestra, conducted by Yuga J. Cohler ’11, was the only consistently earnest element in the entire play. Its placement in front of the stage provided an excellent view of the bobbing heads of the clarinets...
...affair born of shared history: Tea, for example, that most English of drinks, was first cultivated in India by British growers, who quickly undercut their Chinese competitors on price. Like cricket (which the English introduced to India) and polo (though its origins are Persian, the modern game began in northeast India and was later encoded and spread by the British), drinking tea is a joyous ritual that binds Delhi and Doncaster. (Polo is a rich man's sport, of course, but class and caste have long mattered in both countries...
...blacks have not been innocent in the posthumous manipulations of King's legacy. If many whites have undercut King by praising him to death, many blacks have hollowed his individuality through worship. The black reflex to protect King's reputation from unprincipled attack is understandable. But the wish to worship him into perfection is misled; the desire to deify him is tragically misplaced. The scars of his humanity are what make his glorious achievements all the more remarkable...
...commitments handed down by the Supreme Court Tuesday seems to be both good news and bad news for Bush and his hard-line colleagues in the office of the Vice President. The court slammed the door on a provocative power grab by the White House, but it also potentially undercut a whole category of treaties, in the process exposing America's weak system for complying with international...
...that could have a huge impact on the superdelegates," said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Clinton supporter who has helped raise more than $8 million in pledges of private funds to finance new contests. And if Clinton could pull ahead in the popular vote, he added, it would undercut "the whole raison d'etre of the Obama argument: How do you turn your back on the will of the people...