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119 examples of Undone in a sentence

But very few people pay attention to all of the court cases since then, that have undone the educational promised land for every child that Brown v. Board intended.
I do think he's a moral freak, and I think he'll be undone by that fact, the fact that he just doesn't know anything about anything and is uncurious about it.
And even the ones who didn't literally commit suicide seem to be really undone by their gifts, you know.
This reconsolidation view suggests that those structural changes that happen in the brain to support memory can be undone, even for old memories.
They'd had to pull in at Catalina Island shortly after they left Long Beach because the lids of all the water bottles were coming undone, and they were starting to sink.
Raymond Burr wears his working shirt with the top button undone as the hunky chunky plantation foreman who Mrs Payton is desiring to blow the joint with.
Radford said after the screening, and I agree, that Shylock is his first tragic hero, the first of his characters to be undone by a driving, compulsive need for revenge.
Mr Omar Sharif,who built a career largely founded on looking directly at the camera with his big brown eyes and looking soulful,gives a stupefyingly monotonous performance as his son the Crown Prince.He is utterly unconvincing as a man who -in the movie at least-cut a swathe through the distaff side of the Austrian aristocracy.With his well-buttered locks firmly in place he preens and poses in ever more unlikely uniforms.As a rebel he talks the talk but conspicuously fails to walk the walk,leaving a bottom button undone on one of his tunics is about as far as his defiance goes.Unhappily married,he falls in love with a commoner."Forbidden
His strong visual sense is, as usual, undone by the appalling half baked acting of most of the cast.
Payback is the game being played in this drama and the revenge plot is undone by the absurd story line that sets the stage for the fireworks that come later.
Where it all comes undone is in the script, which didn't do any better when it was called Missing In Action and starred Chuck Norris.
The talented Barbara Stanwyck is undone by a sudden metamorphosis from independent and assertive woman to a compliant female of the kind she has put down all her life.
This film is undone by some bad acting and unintentional humorous scenes.
The whole thing seems shabbily made and undone, especially the Orcs and the Nazgul.
"A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something."--Emperor
I grew up on many great anime movies and this was one of my favourites, because it was so unusual - a story about unfairness, and cruelty, and loneliness, and life, and choices that can't be undone, and the need for others.
But in the end his evil ways show through and he is undone by his own greed.
Instead, I came away feeling, undone.
The quality is a little grainy and washed out, but the shorts are still a lot of fun, Tuppertime especially is priceless particularly with the vicar who comes on the air with his flies undone, and Benny is as wonderful as ever.
The other most interesting one is Vampire Lovers, which keeps far closer to the plot of the book and has a more sustained sense of mood and atmosphere, but ultimately is undone by an actress who is far too old to be believable as the Lolita with fangs that Le Fanu imagined long before anyone had ever heard of Vladimir Nabokov.
In other words, an exceptional film is undone by one major weak link--this time in the form of Amelita Ward as Tom Lawrence's totally obnoxious fiancée.
The historical subordination of criminal to political power is being undone.
One is that the US will ultimately be undone by the poor quality of its democratic discourse, and that it is merely at the start of an inevitable decline.
That would be a relief to Republican Party leaders, who recently obtained Trump’s vow (easily undone) not to mount an independent presidential campaign should he fail to win the party’s nomination.
As for Turkey, it opposes the creation of a Kurdish state, which became possible when Iraq and Syria came undone territorially.
The apparent paradox is resolved by noting that rapid productivity growth in the pockets of innovation has been undone by workers moving from the more productive to the less productive parts of the economy – a phenomenon that my co-authors and I have called “growth-reducing structural change.”
The Rules of ReconstructionLebanon’s reconstruction, so painstakingly carried out in the 1990’s, is now at risk of being undone.
But, though great strides are being made in reducing maternal deaths in poor countries, those gains could be undone by a growing threat to women’s health.
But, if the country cannot resolve its long-running ethnic conflicts, all of this progress could be undone.
Continued surveillance and infection control measures will be required to ensure that the accomplishments of the last few months are not undone by a few undetected cases that touch off new SARS hot spots.
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