Word: whimpers
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Lead singer and songwriter Jamie Stewart arranges his music to prod and engage listeners. Underneath Stewart’s vocals—which alternatively whimper, sing, and shout—layers of instrumentation and programming juxtapose guitars, drums, a banjo, a cello, and synthesizers, among other noisemakers. “Apple for a Brain” is composed particularly with provocation in mind, its bouncing beats and chirping drums suddenly giving away after two minutes into what seems like a completely different song. This is far from an isolated example of the group disregarding musical conventions—just...
...even after opponents on the left and right alike criticized the initiative as a Machiavellian way of casting immigrants, their French-born children and especially Muslims as a threat to France's national identity, government officials defiantly took the initiative to term. This week it ended with a whimper, however when authorities issued a list of largely symbolic measures intended to shore up patriotism, but which critics say will ultimately have little impact on society...
...hospital, leaving Harvard little chance of keeping pace with the Wolverines (5-1). After two technical falls, two falls, and a forfeit through the first seven matches, Utah State built an insurmountable lead. Still, Harvard’s heavier wrestlers refused to end the day with a whimper...