Word: whimperative
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...conduct" during the filming. At the same time (1955) the critical Cahiers du Cinema proclaimed it one of the best movies ever made. Up to the finale, I would be inclined to agree with the Cahiers critics, in spite of the weakness in acting and flashback technique. But the whimper ending, which could so easily have been worked into a bang, drops it from the sublime to the extraordinary...
Novelists who persist, in a secular age, in chronicling man's war and peace with God are quite likely to be artists, or at least men whose obsessions speak with the force of art; the hacks are more likely to follow the fashion, which is to whimper at Meaninglessness. The late Nikos Kazantzakis (The Last Temptation of Christ; St. Francis) was such a God-obsessed artist, and so, in a slighter and less intense way, is Isaac Singer, 57, a Pole (now a U.S. citizen) who lives in Manhattan and writes in Yiddish. His subjects are usually lowly Polish...
...sweetie," we whimper, "most of the Boston stuff seems eventually to come to the U.T." In reply the ladies then go into a grim, tooth-grinding pout, and usually get their...
...council was invaded by an indignant posse of 1,000 P.T.A. members. The council scrambled to retreat, not only restored the cuts, but added a few projects of its own for good measure. The tax rate jumped 5? per $100 valuation as a result, but there was scarcely a whimper...
Illinois' Liberal Democrat Paul Douglas, in his distress over the supposed inadequacies of the bill, turned for solace to T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men: "This is the way the world ends-Not with a bang but a whimper." And Pennsylvania's Democratic Joe Clark outdid all the melodrama by telling how he had surrendered his "sword" to the South's chief strategist, Richard Russell of Georgia. "Surely," cried Joe Clark, "the roles of Grant and Lee at Appomattox have been reversed." And then Clark wound up with a touching recital of four stanzas from...