Word: whiningly
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...serious themes, director James Pentecost creates an array of comic types rather than individuals. Lenny, for example, try convince us that she is old and that life is passing her by, repeatedly draws out each of her lines, but the result seems more like a six-year-old whining. Pentecost also tries to make Babe appear naively infantile. But what emerges instead is simply a ridiculous airhead who becomes not only unconvincing but predictable. By Act III, as we wait for Lenny to whine and Babe to act spacy, the play loses its initial spontaneity...
...jarring note was the loud whine of a smoke-alarm klaxon, which briefly startled the crew. Because a fire or any outpouring of gas in Challenger's confined atmosphere would have lethal potential, the shuttle has seven fire extinguishers primed for instant use. However, a quick check showed that the alarm was set off by a sensor in the cargo area's aft bay No. 1 that had a history of being supersensitive, like a home smoke detector that goes off at the merest cigarette puff. Other sensors on Challenger's control panel were normal...
...many interesting things about lasting so long in this business is that you can sit and listen to the government whine about living with the conditions imposed by the conquerer, and, at the same time, remember how the same government laid down its arms and rolled over feigning dead when the lines of battle were drawn. There is a lot of chutzpah in Cambridge...
...many interesting things about lasting so long in this business is that you can sit and listen to the government whine about living with the conditions imposed by the conquerer, and, at the same time, remember how the same government laid down its arms and rolled over feigning dead when the lines of battle were drawn. There is a lot of chutzpah in Cambridge...
...eerie stillness haunts the desolate plains of eastern Australia. Plows rest immobile in their sheds; paddocks remain withered and empty. For day after enervating day, nothing relieves the silence but the whine of hot, fierce winds whirling precious topsoil into dust clouds and the occasional squawks of crows wheeling above the carcasses of livestock...