Word: whimpering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this recital of all three Brahms sonatas started with a relative whimper, it was to improve continually and finally end with a bang. After their nerves settled down, the musicians together set about their business with a genuine musicality that betrayed no romantic excesses...
Herring gulls may have some attraction for birders; to the Fisherman they amount to rats with wings. He rings in Ogden Nash for support: "Hark to the whimper of the sea-gull;/ He weeps because he's not an ea-gull./ Suppose you were, you silly sea-gull,/ Could you explain it to your she-gull...
...Boesky threatened to close with a bang rather than a whimper. Process servers working for both the SEC and the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan had delivered subpoenas to at least a dozen important figures in the stock-trading pantheon. The subpoenas did not imply guilt on the part of those who got them, but requested information about any dealings and relationships with Boesky. Among those said to have received the documents...
...apocalypse had vowed to surrender his beloved son if God would only restore everything to its earlier state of blessed torpor. And come morning, all is restored, in spades. Mama is whining, Daughter is pouting, Doctor is leaving. The world may not be ending, but theirs is -- with a whimper. For Alexander, the only rational response is to go crazy. He carefully sets the house afire and (in a wondrous 6 1/2-min. shot) runs about the grounds, eluding his family until he is carted off in an ambulance, and the gutted house collapses. Each nuclear family detonates its own nuclear...
...PROFESSORS go out with a whimper; some, in fact, go out with quite a bang. Such, at least, was the case of one jolly, well-established old soul I found sitting up on stage the first day of class. For the next 50 minutes, I followed him on an autistic crusade as he enthusiastically explored the farthest regions of his own senility. Soon, I began to wonder if I was in the right class...