Word: whimperative
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...decision may end three years of debate--which goes out not with a bang, but with a whimper--on how to define the issue, but it is unlikely that date rape and the controversy of how to discipline offenders will disappear...
...insensitivity--seems to have quietly disposed of a hot issue in the clammy bureaucracy of the College administration. Not only has he successfully pushed the definition he wanted, but he has done so with barely a murmur of resistance. The issue goes out not with a bang but a whimper...
...been much on quoting, let alone trying to rewrite, great poetry. Consciously or unconsciously, though, he now seems preoccupied with turning one of T.S. Eliot's most quoted lines on its head. In The Hollow Men, Eliot predicted that the world would end "not with a bang but a whimper." Bush appears determined to have his world -- or his presidency, which for him is the same thing -- finish with a very big foreign policy bang...
...ended not with a bang but a whimper -- Dan Quayle whimpering about Murphy Brown, Hollywood and family values. It began with Hollywood values installed on the Potomac -- Frank Sinatra, that champion of family virtue, staging an Inauguration for his old friends Ronald, Jane Wyman's ex-husband, and Nancy, the goddaughter of a famous lesbian (the silent-screen star Alla Nazimova). We have all heard that revolutions devour their own, but how could the Reagan Revolution, of all things, end in a war against Hollywood...
...first half, Harvard gave up all three of its goals to the Huskies, and hardly managed to make a whimper offensively...