Word: undercutting
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...Republican charges do not undercut Kennedy's achievements nor do they demonstrate why he should not represent New York in the Senate...
...what is happening now." Says Kansas' Republican Representative Bob Dole: "Goldwater's victory anchors a party which has been adrift for some years. Now we can, in candor, go out and make speeches for spending cuts and sound conservative principles, certain that we won't be undercut by the leaders of our party...
...gradual disappearance of voting along ethnic or neighborhood lines except in the case of the Negro, has "tended to undercut the political machine" in urban areas, Lane observed...
Pianist Charles Wuorinen's solo "Variations," a frantic and exhausting work, did more than demonstrate his incredible virtuosity at the keyboard. Single, timid treble notes undercut the frenetic, tempestuous rumblings of the bass keys as if the composer were sardonically mocking his own contemporary style. Radical shifts in volume and highly irregular rests produced an extraordinarily witty beginning to a piece which seemed to grow in creasingly bitter...
...sure a solemn chorus, robbed in purple, comments on the action in song, but their accompaniment is a jarring, discordant arrangement of oboes, tympani, drums, and piano (written by Guzzetti himself). An angular, jagged set complements the music and helps undercut the stolid dignity of the purely tragic form...