Word: whimperative
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...commercial success, right after their sophomore major label effort, Ritual de Lo Habitual, went platinum, they broke up somewhere in Hawaii, never to play all together again. The bassist, Eric Avery, and the guitarist, Dave Navarro, put out a little-remembered CD called Deconstruction which died without a whimper. Drummer Stephen Perkins and singer Perry Farrell formed the nucleus of Porno for Pyros and released two largely point-less CD's. But rejoice, Jane's Addiction is back! With the affable Flea replacing Eric Avery on bass, the group finally has a new album...
...orchestra--about as bouncy as Prokofiev could ever write. There is a meditative scene in the midst of this action that the orchestra portrayed very gracefully. But it quickly turns back to marching notes of stridency and urgency--and the symphony ends with a bang, not a whimper...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The GOP revolt against Newt Gingrich ended in a whimper as House Republicans vowed to put their differences aside, but dissent still divides the party even at the leadership level. The uprising fizzled last night after a small group of disgruntled Republicans met for less than 20 minutes without the company of the GOP leadership to voice their disenchantment with the Speaker. The poor showing led organizers to downplay the significance of the unrest. "I don't think the Speaker is in any trouble in any sense of the term trouble. This is politics," said Lindsey Graham...
...Harvard [students] sat quietly in [their] dorms and studied," says Young. "There was never so much as a whimper, but we could hear them running in the Quad...
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version." Exhibit A is the author of that gloomy sentence: Frank McCourt, 66, a retired New York City public school teacher who was born in Depression-racked Brooklyn but spent his formative years in the dank slums of Limerick...