Sentence examples for withersake from inspiring English sources
noun
An apostate or perfidious renegade.
I saw John Wizards at the Jazz Cafe in London in early November, and perhaps it was an off night, but the band – filled out by a schoolfriend of Withers and three others – struggled to replicate the fragile charm of the recorded work, leaving headliners the Owiny Sigoma Band (makers of another of my favourite albums of the year; check out Power Punch) to steal the show.
The amalgam of John Wizard's likely influences might stretch to that modern palimpsest of a sunny West Coast sensibility, Brooklyn chillwave, but Withers has inevitably soaked up sounds closer to home: the Afro-pop of Brenda Fassie as well as contemporary South African house.
Perhaps the book's keenest observation is that "sons often wander like sleepwalkers into their fathers' defeats," as Mr Sullivan did in becoming the poetic writer that his father had always wanted to be.Mysterious objects of affectionLike Mr Sullivan, Jane Smiley loves the chewy, ancient language of horses and horsemanship words such as scrungers, fetlock and withers.
Mr Billington's enthusiasm withers in the 1970s: a time of disappointment, disillusion and a pervasive sense of despair.
When winter cold withers high country grass and freezes the ponds, the estrays drop in on more hospitable residential areas such as Hidden Valley, Dayton or even Carson City.
Now it promotes the likes of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, and it's surviving while CNN withers.
June 11 , 1588Hampshire, England May 2, 1667 London, England George Wither, Wither also spelled Withers (born June 11 , 1588 Bentworth, Hampshire, Eng. died May 2, 1667, London) English poet and Puritan pamphleteer, best remembered for a few songs and hymns.
Much consideration has been given to the backstory of John Wizards – the story of how bedroom programmer John Withers (see what happens when you take the cloak off!) bumped into Rwandan refugee Emmanuel Nzaramba in Cape Town and the pair began making music together, producing a record that justifies the word "magical".
When in 1568 a set of theses was presented at Heidelberg by the English Puritan George Withers, who affirmed both the presbyterian system of church government (assemblies of elected representatives) and the practice of excommunication, Erastus drew up 100 theses (later reduced to 75) to refute him.
April 21, 1801 All Saints Parish, South Carolina April 7, 1864 Georgetown, South Carolina Robert Allston, in full Robert Francis Withers Allston (born April 21 , 1801 All Saints Parish, South Carolina, U.S. died April 7, 1864, Georgetown, South Carolina) rice planter and governor of South Carolina.
It is reminiscent of a different era; no wonder that some critics have seen parallels with the blues of Bill Withers and the modern folk whimsy of Laura Marling.
