Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie. |
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Flub it up or use it out of its context and you find yourself the subject of a withering stare-down. |
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His most withering looks are saved for Radcliffe's speccy detective Harry, and rightly so. |
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She gave me a withering look of utter contempt and proceeded to lecture me at length about the finer nuances of Mother's Day. |
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She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look. |
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The lady at the neighbouring table, with wrinkled skin, a beaky nose and bulging eyes, swathed in netted black, cast her withering glance. |
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Sometimes when we tried to speak Spanish we were met with withering sneers. |
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Unlike those who are rallying behind the president, Vidal retains his withering contempt for the man. |
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Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face. |
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It will mean the withering on the vine of Tory opposition to UK membership of the euro. |
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From this cover, they swept the flats in front of their breastworks with withering gunfire. |
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With the fruit withering on the vine, word came that a deal was being cut between Habbibi and Dostum. |
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Finally, an attempt is made to tie the episode of the fig tree withering to Homer. |
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For a withering smackdown, read his take on the interview in the the magazine. |
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Crops were withering, cattle were dying, and the river that once sculpted canyons was a trickle. |
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Modernity requires constant and unceasing upheaval, and its absence does not bring blessed peace, but withering and death. |
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Iraqi tanks came under withering fire, and Iraqi troops once again offered little resistance. |
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Her sultry good looks, airy insouciance and withering scorn would have made me her instant slave. |
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Now, my Tagalog isn't strong enough for me to have responded in kind, but I did cast her a withering glance. |
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Last week, making his second appearance at the corruption trial, he launched a withering attack on his critics. |
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She has been on the receiving end of other withering and vitriolic attacks from women columnists. |
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The rain is expected to give some respite to the withering kharif crops and orchards in Himachal. |
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Gail agreed with the remainder of the fashion faux pas top ten, saving her most withering comments for shell suits and puffballs. |
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But eventually even that fell apart under the withering internal gaze of my mind's eye. |
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Despite the withering heat of the plains, still clearly to be seen at the foot of the mountain, this is cool trout country. |
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He has a wicked and withering sense of humour, and continues to perform stand-up comedy around the country. |
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Since November 2, the withering contempt of liberals for ordinary Americans has been astonishing. |
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I'd be heartily sick of dusty decorations by then, so I've some understanding of the reason behind the withering glance. |
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The pressure not to split the team into warring camps during such a season was withering, and it fell on both of them. |
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But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling. |
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Even before the tourists jetted out from Blighty former Australian bowling demon Dennis Lillee delivered a withering a verdict on the England attack. |
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The late Norman MacCaig once told him about old age withering his talents. |
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This, combined with the ideal of the class-less society and the expected withering away of the state after the revolution, implies a form of cosmopolitanism of its own. |
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For those who see her withering her opponents with television soundbites, it comes as a surprise to find her sense of humour always bubbling close to the surface. |
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An employee who forgot their password to log in to the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the support staff as they grovelled to have it reset. |
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This is a serious comic novel, a withering satire on dumbed-down culture, a gently ironic look at devotions and ambitions, and a redemptive parable about coping with grief. |
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But among the disapprovers, withering glances and artfully worded comments have given way to pranks and other creative kinds of revenge. |
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By the 1590s the old church was withering away as former office-holders died, while the presbyteries were taking a more consistent place in church administration. |
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Speaking of choices, the members opposite, in the withering windsock that is the Liberal Party, speak of principles. |
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During this withering process, the leaves become soft and pliable losing much of their water weight due to evaporation. |
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But mellowness is a relative concept in a man who cherishes a withering revulsion for any upstart with the temerity to beat him. |
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Crops are withering, and on Tokelau people are subsisting on bottled water after six months of scant rainfall. |
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First, she hit it off with Bebe owner Manny Mashouf, who gamely endured her withering criticism of his brand. |
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The foliage may show a withering and, once the trees are girdled by the canker, they die. |
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For the best results, consider nipping out withering flowers after they have finished flowering. |
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Oh, they exclaim, look at that poor old donkey, withering in the heat of the noonday sun. |
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But puzzling as it may be, it is not as mysterious as the misconception that government is withering away. |
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In 1929 the Communist Party was still calling for the withering away of the family. |
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The objective of withering is to evaporate the moisture from the green leaves slowly over a period of 14 to 16 hours. |
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While the welfare state is not withering away, it is not addressing these inequalities. |
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Now, maybe it's a little early to see it withering away, but do you think that's going to happen? |
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A withering drought is stretching from southwestern Arkansas to southeastern Oklahoma and across Texas. |
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In the vatting house, the Pinot needed strict triage with some signs of withering and occasional areas of rot. |
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One village in the Nordyungas faces water shortages and has to save plants from withering. |
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The flowers or leaves of the trees in heaven do not repeat the process of blooming and withering. |
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And the young musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are there to prevent them from withering away into a superficial cliché. |
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No region in the state is immune to a withering norther, but the odds of connecting with fishable conditions improve the farther south you are willing to travel. |
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In the end, hollow pulled out a withering attack that outpaced Budden both in speed and viciousness. |
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For the body withering under the polluted skies of the City, with all the energies drained by the daily rigmarole of life, this is manna from heaven! |
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They are quite likely to see right through you and your feckless ways, like Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous withering Edina and Patsy with her magnificently polished disdain. |
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He gestured to Straeger, who was looking so disdainfully at her that Voelker could feel the withering contempt radiating from him as though he were telepathic himself. |
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As he turned to leave under the withering gaze of his disappointed superiors, it was discovered that he had not received the decryption code that accompanied the exercise. |
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She is a patient one, and dismissed me with a withering glance. |
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Preparing to send Ikeda a withering glower to conceal the sting that throbbed through him after his partner's slight, Shanza jerked in fright instead when he was interrupted. |
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What makes the November 14 race different is it will be held in the cool of November instead of in the withering South Carolina heat of Labor Day weekend. |
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As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering heat of state-corporate power, it becomes ever more difficult to tell the truth. |
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But these are some sharply drawn stories, fleshed out with three-dimensional characters, withering satire, and genuine pathos. |
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In response to withering media criticism, the Bush folks finally figured out that they had been hoodwinked. |
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The self-analysis is withering at times and self-deprecating. |
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Two enemy ships exploded in a rolling ball of flame, and another was left dead in the water, it's main power grid severed by the withering hail of bolts. |
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Some gardeners bemoan showy colchicum's handsome, foot-long, leek-like foliage, which mantles the ground in spring before withering indecorously in early summer. |
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We are hopeful that in this sector the governance of globalisation is flourishing, and not withering away, as is unfortunately happening in other sectors. |
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It's a committed performance and Young sings with familiar withering inelegance, but it has to be said that, denuded of their tasteful studio arrangements, not all of the songs stand up well to this kind of exposure. |
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Some sites are withering under low referral numbers, especially in small sites or sites with more generous diversion options available to police and Crowns. |
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We announce investment in research, yet the European Technology Institute is withering away before our eyes, ripped apart as a result of national self-interest. |
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It is not only that social policy is more openly debated, given the withering away of the liberal State and the efforts to entrench neo-liberal policies. |
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Because the cankers caused by the fungus prevent sap circulation, the disease symptoms include leaf yellowing, followed by leaf withering above the cankered parts. |
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It was the third recent visit by Japanese officials aiming to prepare the ground for a first summit between Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, and Xi Jinping, China's president. Yet China's response was withering. |
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But by the closing days, a desperate Mr Forrester was flooding the airwaves with withering quotes from Mr Corzine's ex-wife, while the Corzine campaign was calling Mr Forrester a liar and an extremist. |
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All this sounds like withering condemnation. |
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We caught the train up to Edinburgh the day before, overwhelming the buffet car and sending other travellers fleeing under a withering assault of shouted anecdotes and braying laughter. |
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He admits many believe party politics is withering on the vine. |
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For lack of the necessary connections, Mr Lal says, none has yet migrated for work. The withering of ancient skills was a doleful theme in Shahabpur. |
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The withering of discipleship is one of the gravest threats facing the church today. |
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In it he made his most withering criticism yet of the slumbering economy. |
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The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle. |
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For ngai, the zany is an aesthetic about the withering of sensibility. |
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Her laugh wasn't cruel in tone, but it cut through Husk like a scalpel, withering his wick even further. |
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Unmentioned goes the fact that Hong Kong too is likely to pass into history, its special role withering as China integrates more fully with the rest of the world. |
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Consequently, while the Guangdong plain was traditionally referred to as China's breadbasket, the soil has now turned to dust and wheat sprouts are withering. |
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After the film opened to withering reviews, his despair was complete. |
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Here, the heat possesses a special, withering oppressiveness: from the sidewalks below, the concrete canyons of the city come to resemble the contours of a giant tandoor oven. |
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In 2007, when David Staniforth was fined £300 for headbutting a fellow guest on the show, Manchester judge Alan Berg delivered a withering review of the show's appeal. |
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As we have seen from the above comments, using one's later years as a time for deep, reflective thought can instill a sense of upliftment and joy that transcends the limitations of a withering body. |
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One misplaced pass, one overelaborate manoeuvre that went wrong and there was that famous withering look. |
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Mina's overprotection of her child slowly backfires for Jude as he believes his son is withering away in hunger. |
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Their brother, Thomas, seems strikingly unfazed as he beavers away at his perpetual homework while James Mortmain himself holes up in the gate tower, exerting a presence that is, by turns, withering, pathetic and absurd. |
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The senior lawyer gives the student a withering look, tells the student that those ideas are fine for law school, but at this firm they went to law school to litigate, not mediate. |
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Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow. |
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For three days, bani Walid has come under withering Grad rocket barrages. |
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These herdings and stabbings and stranglings occurred five hundred years ago, before America felt the withering touch of Europe. Does that exclude them from our concern? |
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Taking pluralism seriously, Hardy contends, requires us to hope for the withering away of all monisms, including mainstream variants of monotheist religions. |
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To pass the quailing and withering of all things by the recess, and their reviving by the reaccess of the sun, the sap in trees precisely follows the motion of the sun. |
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O for a withering curse to blast the germing of their wicked machinations. |
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One of the clergy sprang involuntarily to his assistance, but retreated with haste, so withering was the fire which flashed from those failing eyes. |
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