Word: whimperative
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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MEANWHILE IN ABU DHABI... Back With a Whimper Fans of Comical Ali - former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, whose reality-defying comments on the Iraq war earned him a cult following around the world - were delighted to hear that he was back on the air. Sadly, in his first appearance as a pundit for Abu Dhabi TV, al-Sahhaf limited himself to quite plausible comments on Saddam Hussein's arrest, which he didn't even bother to deny. It's not clear, however, whether he has conceded that there are in fact U.S. troops on the streets...
...tight boot-cut jeans. The applicant comes from a ranch in the outlying area; his family raises Angus steers, and we talk for a little while about mad cow disease, about which he is extremely well-informed. Even with the mad cow scourge (which is really more of a whimper, he tells me), livestock sales shouldn’t decline much. (At this point, he holds a can of Copenhagen my way; I wave it off, while he takes a dip.) He’s a guy who certainly deserves to get into Harvard on his various merits?...
...scrappy team from Northeastern refused to go out with a whimper and played Harvard tough for the remainder of the game...
...that the fate of the universe would hang on the outcome of a kung-fu fight between Neo and Smith. It comes at the end on and above city streets in a slow, heavy rain. The trilogy ascends and soars with the two combatants and ends not with a whimper but with a blast of light...
...question is whether the U.S. will continue its rallying cry for a viable effort in Iraq or instead lower its voice to a whimper, foreshadowing a muffled withdrawal from its current commitment. Do we have a serious, reality-based strategy capable of moving events in Iraq in our favor, or merely an incrementalist, catch-up mentality which will ultimately prove its own insufficiency...