How to pronounce “withering”(verb) in English

come under relentless scrutiny and withering attacks from the other side.

While Roosevelt's uh opinion of the League was withering.

I had a line suggesting this that squeezed out a withering glance and made some reference to the employee manual

Now this is hard because we are not as a species well equipped to subject our own beliefs to the kind of withering scrutiny that would tell us when our beliefs are wrong.

We're very good at subjecting other people's beliefs to withering scrutiny, right?