Word: undercutting
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...intense, complex performance in unexpected circumstances. If it's occasionally undercut by a script that sometimes speaks when it should shut up, and by excessive recessiveness on Caviezel's part, it is still very much worth checking...
...Fine comedies both. And I can say that with conviction because I've seen them already - "The Tick" was sent to critics last summer and "Undeclared" this winter, both with plans to run midseason. Taking your time to debut shows is fine, of course - it just tends, again, to undercut those claims about your vaunted sitcom development...
...Jung's recent visit to Washington, Bush embarrassed the Nobel laureate by saying he didn't trust North Korea to live up to the missile agreement Kim has been painstakingly trying to forge with his menacing neighbor. However valid Bush's concern, by expressing it publicly he undercut an ally. Likewise, Bush's abrupt abandonment of the Kyoto global warming treaty, whatever the merits of the decision, provoked a wave of anger across the Atlantic and in a stroke reinvigorated anti-American feeling throughout Europe...
...many cases, a complete absence of choices). As the Princes, Christian E.K. Lerch ’04 and Dan P. Berwick ’01, lack chemistry and play so clueless and foppish that the obvious comedy of their duets, “Agony,” is undercut and their overall characterizations suffer. When Berwick, though, shares the stage with the Baker’s Wife or Cinderella he is on the exact right pitch. Karoun A. Demirjian ’03 is clear-voiced as Cinderella, but bland. Though she sounds especially lovely...
...expensive brand-name cocktail. "We are offering the drugs at a humanitarian price," says Cipla chairman Yusuf K. Hamied. GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers have threatened to sue Cipla; they fear that a flood of cheap imitations in Africa could create a global black market for AIDS drugs that could undercut prices in the developed world...