Word: whimperative
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...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...
...pension reform at the very least is signed and sealed. Raffarin exempted the vast number of smaller businesses in France from the strictures of the 35-hour week. Even his proposal to remove a public holiday from the national calendar to fund programs for the elderly provoked hardly a whimper of protest. But his method of quietly forcing change leaves many longing for a clearer sense of direction. "He manages and manages and manages, but he doesn't inspire!" moans Bernard Kouchner, the flamboyant former Socialist Minister of Health. That complaint doesn't just come from the usual suspects, either...
...Poonsters] yelled, ‘disperse, ye rebels,’ but nobody dispersed, and the affair died without a bang but with a whimper,” Cobb said. “They expected that state troopers would tackle them, but nobody moved...