It lacks perhaps the systematic purview of David Hume's classic discussion of the "ideal critic" in his essay On the Standard of Taste, but it has its moments, such as Baldassaro2's withering reference to "British music paranoia" and AJaeger's nifty one-two: "Second rate choral extravaganza?
Crosby, who reportedly cried at the recording, later described Young's deliberate, withering reference of the president of the world's most powerful nation by name as the "the bravest thing I ever heard".
As a native of Wales, I have been particularly interested in the reaction to the Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood, which seemed mostly to consist of grumbling that all she talked about was Wales (imagine that), and withering references to her party's nationalism.
She reminded me of Truman Capote and his similarly withering comments about poinsettias, which he called the Robert Goulet of botany, seemingly in reference to the popular singer's appeal to sentiment.
Secretary Clinton's reference to childishness, Vice President Biden's description of Russia's "withering" economy serving to bend their will in our direction, and President Obama's remark that Cambridge police "acted stupidly" all caused repercussions requiring serious backpedalling.
Annoyed with the reporter's line of questioning, in particular a reference to whether Leicester's season was "waxing or waning", Pearson's withering comments were picked up as he left his seat.
Once orbit 4's anomalous result and one result at a solar zenith angle greater than 95° (orbit 352, 98.9°) are set aside, the dependence of peak electron density on solar zenith angle appears quite consistent with prior analysis and studies of other datasets (top panel of Fig. 8) (Withers 2009b, and references therein).
Alan Duncan made reference to Thatcher: gay icon in his musings on the forthcoming televisualisation of Alan Hollinghurst's withering portrait of the Thatcher years through gay eyes, The Line Of Beauty.
Tarkovsky invests the withered tree with weighty allegorical references, but beyond that I found this scene to be film's equivalent of virgin forest.
A clerical error appears to have allowed for Mr. Withers's identity to be divulged: In most cases in the reports, references to Mr. Withers and his informer number, ME 338-R, have been blacked out.
The hostilities are withering.
