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Discover LudwigThe phrase "withering assessment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a critical evaluation that is harsh or scathing in nature. Example: "The critic's withering assessment of the film left the director visibly shaken."
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During his speech, however, Obama delivered a withering assessment of Putinism.
She spent the bulk of one letter on a withering assessment of dormmates.
The president's withering assessment of the government's performance could reshape the intensifying political debate over the thwarted terrorist attack.
In it, Yee offered a withering assessment of the independent city-state's founding father, which was in stark contrast to the laudatory tributes pouring forth from elsewhere.
The Growth and Opportunity Project's withering assessment had no new policies to propose — it seemed wary of the very notion of ideological debate.
"Just because you are paid £120,000 a week and play well for 20 minutes against Tottenham, you think you're a superstar," was the withering assessment.
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Justin Long has agreed to weather the withering assessments of Jeff Goldblum when he makes his Broadway debut in "Seminar" beginning April 3.
For years, Robert Verdun has been one of Corporate Canada's biggest gadflies, a controversial shareholder activist known for his withering assessments of the country's Big Banks.
There's Elise (Delphi Harrington), an imperious 90-year-old Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, given to withering assessments of anyone she deems boring.
His withering assessments of such cultural icons as his erstwhile colleague Melvyn Bragg and the violinist Nigel Kennedy were eagerly anticipated at his press conferences, at least by those who were not the butt of his biting sarcasm.
His withering assessments of such cultural icons as his erstwhile colleague Melvyn Bragg and the "punk" violinist Nigel Kennedy were eagerly anticipated at his press conferences, at least by those who were not the butt of his biting sarcasm.
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