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Arriving on the coast in 1527, Montejo’s forces were hindered by the dense jungle and withering climate, and were met by fierce resistance from the natives.
Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Kurt Andersen, the New York Times "Arts and Ideas" page, a private salon of left-leaning intellectuals, the entire city of Manhattan--all are treated with the same withering contempt.
Novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Kurt Andersen, the New York Times Arts and Ideas page, a private salon of left-leaning intellectuals, the entire city of Manhattan--all are treated with the same withering contempt.
word choice (a word like disgusting, for example, specifically invites being enunciated in a withering tone, whereas the more ambiguous revolting might not).
Having recently traveled to many of the places Applebome visited, I found his warm but withering portrait of Dixie to ring true.