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word choice (a word like disgusting, for example, specifically invites being enunciated in a withering tone, whereas the more ambiguous revolting might not).
Good reviews, for the most part, for the autobiography of one of hip-hop's most successful artists: "An amusing, contemplative memoir" that paints "a surprisingly humanistic portrait" of the crack dealer turned platinum-selling musician ( Kirkus Reviews ). The tales of his misspent youth and rise to fame are "eloquently told" (Michael Harris, the Los Angeles Times ). One reviewer splits from the pack and delivers a withering pan: "[T]he ability to sell a lot of records has almost nothing to do with insight or maturity.
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.
The papers do not subject the anti-Giuliani protesters to the same withering attention.
Answer: "Dogs (long pause and withering look) ...