The colors in the role are all more saturated now — the withering sarcasm, the sense of anguished confusion at her husband's betrayal, the grim rise to the challenge of her mother's antagonism.
Even though power-sharing in the formal sense withered away in the 1980s, it remains a habit: for example, Liberals hold important jobs in Mr Pastrana's government.
Through May 6. | Terence Koh's one-room work comprises a single four-thousand-watt bulb in a lamp pointed at viewers, a withering assault on the senses.
Both of these forms of attention wither though with the sense that something's not so fucking "en vogue" any more.
Indeed, as the weeks dragged on, the goodwill he had garnered appeared to wither, replaced with a sense in Washington and on the campaign trail that his ongoing and public deliberation was perhaps starting to undercut his standing as vice president.
But there is another alternative: to detect in the prospect of answers without questions and choices, without deliberation or even thought, a path that will lead eventually only to more inhumanity, owing to the urges that may at any moment take hold of a people that senses itself withering away.
Being friendly in a sense, cooperative, withers down any tension the speaker may have.
As a tamer of moods, Ms. Clarke brings a stern schoolteacher's gaze to the task, as well as a withering wit and a daring sense of fashion.
But that sense of urgency withered over the subsequent weeks into a hollow threat of crisis.
But "Matt & Ben" succeeds because both as writers and actors Ms. Kaling and Ms. Withers have a fine, deadpan sense of the absurd and the vicious.
