Sentence examples for withering attitude from inspiring English sources

Watkins, as Jefferies, had a glorious way of making viewers warm to this quietly bumptious but dignified man who took a withering attitude to the police's bullish approach.

A lovely wife transforming into a withering shrew can happen gradually, or overnight; adjust your attitude and lifestyle to accommodate your wife's new bad habit.

Skeptical attitudes, averse to mimesis and metaphor, put a withering pressure on painting, including even the simplest abstraction.

Withers summons the wisdom of the Swiss architectural historian Sigfried Giedion, who saw society's attitude to bathing as a litmus test of its attitude to human relaxation.

Award-winning playwright Alan Bennett has launched a withering attack on the Tories, describing their style of government as "quite close to a totalitarian attitude".

The hostilities are withering.

Mandelson was withering in response.

Her zingers could be withering.

A withering verdict on 360?

In a withering article Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian novelist who is also Latin America's best-known liberal thinker, wrote that "we need a museum of memory to fight the intolerant, blind and obtuse attitudes which unleash political violence"—attitudes exemplified, he said, by Mr Flores-Aráoz's comments.The plan for the museum coincides with a wider re-examination of Peru's violent years.

The verbs are withering away.