Sentence examples for withering understanding from inspiring English sources
The actress gives the constant impression of quite severe self-knowledge but also a withering understanding of human motivation in more general terms.
Yet the significance in understanding the Global South lies not in its withering socio-political diversity but in its conformity to the capitalist uniformity.
In their seminal 2012 book, "Why Nations Fail," Dr. Acemoglu and Dr. Robinson offered a powerful new framework for understanding why some societies thrive and others decline — those based on inclusive growth succeed, while those where growth is extractive wither.
As well understanding (at least probably hoping) except they be watered from higher regions, and fructifying meteors of Knowledge, these weeds must lose their alimental sap, and wither of themselves.
Withering's insights on the medical uses of foxglove proved crucial to modern understanding of heart failure, and today drugs containing the active compound, known as digitalis, are still prescribed.
This drew a withering response from Justice Scalia, a proponent of reading the Constitution according to the original understanding of those who adopted it.
To the question of "whether disciplines like literary theory provide real understanding," Professor Rosenberg's answer is as unequivocal as it is withering: just like fiction, literary theory can be "fun," but neither one qualifies as "knowledge".
