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  • Now that she was living in the diaspora, this religious control mechanism could lead only to denial and hypocrisy, self-undoing and destruction.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Now that she was living in the diaspora, this religious control mechanism could lead only to denial and hypocrisy, self-undoing and destruction.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Everything since has seemed a displacement, a deracination. …the speaker of these poems often teeters says Newey on the edge of self-undoing, looking forward and back and uncertain whether he is the watcher or the watched.

    2010 June 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2010

  • Now that she was living in the diaspora, this religious control mechanism could lead only to denial and hypocrisy, self-undoing and destruction.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Everything since has seemed a displacement, a deracination. …the speaker of these poems often teeters says Newey on the edge of self-undoing, looking forward and back and uncertain whether he is the watcher or the watched.

    Measuring fresh, luminous, visionary power 2010

  • Demons can manifest as inner tendencies, such as fear, doubt, self-undoing, low self-esteem, rage, and other disabling emotions.

    Alison Rose Levy: Stressed this Political Season? 2008

  • In short, the "metaphorical substitution" is in fact a self-undoing trope that self-deconstructs into the catachrestic imposition of a name.

    Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 2005

  • O mysterious word! mysterious the resistance of such patient Love -- mysterious the liberty of self-undoing!

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Not that in this fall, or self-undoing, it suffers any thing which is called justice, under the political analogies.

    The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871

  • Hayes says today that he regrets using the word inevitable, adding that the environmental movement sometimes encounters a "self-undoing hypothesis" -- warnings that cause corrective actions that keep the warnings from coming true.

    10News.com - Local News 2010

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