Debussy's orchestra, indeed, is the giver and withholder of all things.

It is the manner of the passive aggressive, the chronic withholder, of those who want others to think they have dispensed with normal needs.

There is but one agent, without rival--the Keeper of the Holy Secrets, the Deputy of the Almighty Awfulness, the Giver and Withholder of Eternal Life.

I didn't want to sound like a dunce or a withholder of crucial information, but I had to tell him, for my sake as well as his own, when I realized what her statements implied.

So goes the joke about a ubiquitous Washington being - the press secretary, that pre-eminent dispenser of information, withholder of detail, loyal mouthpiece and stubborn buffer for politicians, agencies, associations and officials throughout this Federal city.