Word: witheringly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leads Western countries to despair for the U.N., a number of critics prescribe benign neglect for a creature swollen with rhetoric, unread paperwork and merely stray achievements on the ground. Many agencies are financed in large part by voluntary funds; governments could favor worthwhile functions and let the rest wither away. Parsons' verdict: "Well, let it become irrelevant if it won't reform itself. Don't let's waste too much time and the energy of clever...
...monumental of buildings. As upperclassmen stroll through Harvard Yard year after year, we witness with what great care the memorable first-year dorms are restored. I was fortunate to be a first-year in Weld the year following its renovation. It seems that no dorm is merely allowed to wither away for too long without undergoing some restorative treatment...
...conventional feminine virtue: stuck by her philandering husband, and of course refrained from fooling around herself. Not that the children would necessarily have had an easy time of it. Women who sacrifice everything for the kids often make cold, embittered moms, or suffocating, emotionally overwhelming moms, or else they wither away from a depression for which the kids eventually blame themselves. Though at least, in those cases, the children live long enough to experience the concept of "eventually...
...Pharoah Sanders Quartet wore loose-fitting African clothing, creating an atmosphere quite at odds with the upscale Regattabar and its corporate clientele. Unfortunately, it was only the visual appearance of Pharoah's group that was striking, as the saxophone master's normally fertile musical imagination seemed to wither in the sterile Cambridge setting...
Pinsky's fresh, vital language doesn't wither in the face of Dante's infernal landscapes. Take, for example, the description of the myriad souls collecting at the river Archeron...