Word: witheringly
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Expectation. The word evokes the image of hope and the possibility of failure. When somebody expects something, you can rise to the challenge or wither away and die. The Harvard wrestling team this year has not been performing up to expectation...
...filming the movie Giant. Her every movement, including her stiff posture and constantly flickering tongue, make Mona a treacherously attractive woman. Her self-conscious motions and carefully modulated voice reveal a delicately constructed character who could never face the brutality of the external world and is forced to wither away in the vapid small town. Dennis brings this crazed woman's self-proclaimed role as the mother of Dean's illegitimate son into perspective; she has no other reason for living except for the attention she has received for her son Jimmy Dean--who she maintains is an imbecile...
ARMY 30, COLUMBIA 14--The legend of John Witkowski continues to grow. And respect for the Columbia football team as a whole continues to wither away. Last week Witkowski completed 35 of 56 passes for 409 yards--all three marks shattered previous Lion totals set by former Baltimore Colt Marty Domres. And Columbia got blown out by Division II Bucknell, 42-25. It should be more of the same this week, on both counts...
...have to understand that a department is a family," says Brown. "If one or two key people leave, the quality and charm and all the nice things about a department are substantially reduced, and things can just wither away...
...excursion emerges for Allie's transplanted family as a massive exercise in futility. As the children watch their father's control on reality wither under the hot sun of the jungle, and as the realization comes to all that life in America really wasn't all that bad, the family goes on weathering emotional storms skin to those of the original pilgrims in their native Massachusetts. Theroux shows remarkable discipline throughout the narrative. Telling the story through Charlie, the 14-year-old oldest son. Theroux ineluctably cases into an intelligent, but effortless simplicity. Some scenes have tremendous appeal, especially those...