Word: undercutting
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...many of Bergman's other works. However, in true Bergmanesque fashion, the comedy is laced with tragedy and pathos. The epigrams, though elegant and humorous, are capable of wounding. While the characters comply with the structure of a comedy of manners by affirming love and happy endings, they consistently undercut the same structure with theri realization of the futility of all sentiments, most especialy love. The film ends with all the participants coupled, but this highly conventional resolution, required in all classic boudoir farces, is shattered by the bursts of despair, contempt and naked pity throughout the film. Bergman explodes...
...names whose troubles have come back to haunt the firm. They leaked word that Rose was conducting an internal review of Hubbell to determine whether he had overbilled clients and misused his expense account. And politically conservative partners are also said to be itching to undercut Rose alumni attached to the Democratic White House. The Washington Times reported last week that in connection with the expense-account questions, an unidentified group of partners is thinking of filing an ethics complaint against Hubbell with the Arkansas Supreme Court...
...admonished Eastern Europe against joining NATO, hinted at keeping Russian troops in the Baltics and sternly warned republics not to mistreat ethnic Russians. Observers are left to speculate that the Foreign Minister's new stance may be a signal that the only way Yeltsin's beleaguered Kremlin team can undercut the appeal of the nationalists is by becoming more conservative themselves...
...following attempts to kick him out of the house, Johnny returns from his many days of wandering, beaten to a pulp. His outward emotions change, almost as visibly as his eye blackens. But by the end, he opts not for love but for wandering. This type of movie could undercut all of the statements of modernity Leigh has spent two hours making. Johnny must continue his solitary, vagabond ways with only his sharp wit and active libibo. Like a modern-day Huck Fin, Johnny sees the skeleton that forms the basis of the human psyche, he also sees the skeletons...
...some point along the way, the Serbs will fail to comply with NATO demands. At that point, air strikes will be necessary. The only thing that made the Serbs pull back from Sarajevo was the belief that this NATO would follow through. To fail to do so would undercut the credibility NATO recently generated for itself...