Sentence examples for in withering from inspiring English sources

The New York Times dismissed his threat to sue in withering terms.

You may not realize this, but most Americans hold the United Nations in "withering disdain".

Mr. Angelides and the other commission members challenged the bankers on executive pay and reckless underwriting and trading, often in withering terms.

But Russians, especially those stuck in withering villages, seem intent on drinking themselves into nonexistence, pouring spirits down their throats so systematically, and in such reliably lethal quantities, that their behavior provides a scientific definition of despair.

"We are astounded at the length of time it has taken for News International to cooperate with the police," it said, as it described in withering terms a web of connections between executives at News International and senior police officers.

The stories in "Blasphemy," Alexie's collection of new and selected work, begin and nearly always end by reaffirming the brokenness, the dissonance and alienation of contemporary Native American life, usually delivered in withering punch lines: "On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing.

Arsenic is mostly found in withered aquifers, those at the depth of less than 150 m.

Instead, I would get too thin and lay in bed, withering away.

He'd been doodling since he was a kid, but the joy he'd once found in illustrating withered in adulthood.

That meant wildfires in Spain and Portugal, withered crops in France and Italy and rivers with dangerously low water levels throughout the continent.

Mandelson was withering in response.