And at the heart of the issue is the belief that England's best youngsters are being left to wither on the vine as clubs habitually seek to bring in imported talent.
As a result, even the most promising ideas are being left to wither.
Facing intense popular aversion, nuclear energy is being left to wither.
The difference, Mr. Garrow said, is the evidence that Mr. Withers was being paid.
Brushing until what are left are withered petals, not pearls.
And what if the bits that are left are withered beyond use?
"It's dusty, the flowers are withered, the photograph is faded," said Karina Núñez, crying as she talked about the shrine for her son, Jesús Alfonso.
It is harvest time, but crops are withered and many people are eating banana roots and pumpkin leaves.
The classicist M. L. West, who published a translation in the Times Literary Supplement, took pains to emulate the long line of Sappho's original: But me — my skin which once was soft is withered now by age, my hair has turned to white which once was black . . .
The thing with all these Dirtybird cats (Justin Martin, Justin Jay, J. Phlip) is that they all seem as if they wriggled out of the womb and climbed onto a set of decks and will be doing so until they're withered and old.
