Word: whimperative
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...human life," the only sure way to obtain quality is by limiting quantity. If there exists a broad consensus among scientists, it is that the imperative of our age is the population dynamic, and that, if the end comes, it comes not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but rather with a birth...
...Myra's unholy quest to vanquish man; the locus of her attack was the wellspring of his contemporary myths, Hollywood. Clad principally in feminine indestructibility, she sought to blind men with her beauty, determinedly "unmanning them in the way that King Kong was reduced to a mere simian whimper by beauteous Fay Wray, whom I resemble left three-quarter profile...
...with royalty and nerve. He has the mighty breath for the Marlowe line. He has the control to make the relentless rhythms a hammer of pulse. His Edward jumps and flickers, a petulant youth who grows in viciousness yet retains sympathy, who dies stripped to a rag and a whimper yet retains tragedy. It is a performance, paired with his Richard, that marks McKellen at 28 as an actor of potential greatness. Like most fine British players, he has been thoroughly schooled in a variety of roles, ranging from Shaw to West End sentimental comedies. The year after he graduated...
...campaign began with a bang and hurriedly converted itself into a whimper. When the plan was announced earlier this month by Wesley E.Profit '69, the election of the new slate seemed to promise a radical transformation of the Coop from a moribund and insensitive burden on the Cambridge community into a major force for social equality and change...
...SUNDAY morning, September 22, Paul Olimpieri, an AWOL Marine, took sanctuary in the Andover Chapel of the Harvard Divinity School. Two days later Military Police took him out. Then, with barely a whimper, the first "confrontation" of the fall dissolved into nothingness...