After Davidson's death and burial, press attention withered as newspapers concentrated on more significant events in the years before the Second World War.
The stuffy vicar, Walter Goodfellow Rowan Atkinsonn), has grown too pious by half, and his marriage to his beautiful wife, Gloria Kristin Scott Thomass), is withering from lack of attention.
In the world at large, tyranny and corruption thrive when ignored; they wither when people pay attention.
The Wither will focus its attention on the Endermen.
They marched slowly through Sudipen's cobbled streets ahead of a white Mercedes hearse, then stood at rigid attention in the withering humidity as hundreds of people gathered in an open-air hall.
Both of these forms of attention wither though with the sense that something's not so fucking "en vogue" any more.
The skinny singer out front, Alison Mosshart, looked like a girl practicing nonchalant agony in the mirror, the whole strut-and-wither act seeking and deflecting attention at the same time: hair in face, knees pointing inward.
Conversely, whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate and disappear.
We needed a backyard and a swing set and a veggie garden, even though it was sure to wither and die from lack of attention.
