Sentence examples for withering power from inspiring English sources

In a few taped gallery appearances, he reveals himself to be both a deft stand-up comic and an actor and writer of withering power.

Jimmy Connors, the five-times US Open champion, has been restoring Roddick's frayed confidence since Wimbledon, attempting to simplify his game and put the accent on his strengths, namely his colossal and withering power.

Now, still on a duck, facing Harbhajan Singh's off-spin for the first time, Shah thundered down the track in the noon heat and drove with withering power to mid-off for no run.

When Steyn, coming up the hill, dropped marginally short and a fraction wide, Pietersen simply flayed him through extra cover, a stroke of withering power and startling hand-eye coordination, the manner in which he treated Steyn in Barbados.

Ignore those who call her a living connection to the withered power of empire, and lay her popularity there.

It floats behind her in the water, withered, useless power.

To expect Tyson to fight five times over the next 16 months is absurd; to think that his withered earning power will grow to satisfy his debtors is almost crazy.

The idea of age has become such a selling point for zinfandels that these days, it seems, not a bottle on the shelves isn't labeled "old vines," "ancient vines," "gnarled vines" or some variant suggesting withered, knotty power.

At the plate, Giambi is a withering vision of power, hitting.239 with an on-base percentage of.376, which would be impressive in "Moneyball" wisdom but falls flat in Yankees logic considering he is paid to produce runs, not draw walks.

Administration officials who, three years ago and not yet in power, were withering in their assessment of the war and Iraqi politicians, have become their unlikely boosters.

Instead, they blame Zvonko Veselinovic, an ethnic Serb in his 30s with a shaved head, a withering gaze and enough power that some people, in local Serbian restaurants, refuse to whisper his name.