Sentences with phrase «withering stare»

or the wordless, withering stare she gives her ex-husband's new 19 - year - old girlfriend when she says, well, pretty much any time she says anything.

Reynolds Woodcock has a tendency to look inward or downward, and when he does look at others, it's usually a withering stare over the top of his glasses, a dismissive expression communicating that whatever or whoever he's looking at is beneath him (something further underlined by his lilting, regal voice).

Consumers will soon be able to buy many high - end goods without the withering stare of a boutique salesclerk.

Moreover, the fundamental reason it is no longer good law is not, with all due respect to the «wither stare decisis?»

Not exact matches

It was an unnerving look that irrevocably rattled more than one interlocutor, typically some poor employee undergoing a withering product review, and it stared out from every Fortune or Time cover he graced.

I was rather surprised when I opened up Mary on Christmas day to find a withered up little thing staring at me from the box.

But these rule of law justifications for stare decisis largely wither when deprived of the sunlight publication provides.