Sentences with phrase «of a whimper»

The Essential Phone launched earlier this year to a bit of a whimper with most highlighting software issues, camera problems and the very expensive price point.
The long - looming deadline — March 5 — for youthful immigrant Dreamers facing loss of legal status under Obama - era DACA protection came and went yesterday with more of a whimper than a bang.
Batman: Arkham Knight hopes to wipe that foul taste away, and leave with a bang instead of a whimper.
As the winter transfer window ended with a bit of a whimper in England, a lot of the reports in the football media were about the big money deals for players going to play in China and Arsene Wenger last week warned that the amount of money in their Super League could soon be causing problems for the Premier League clubs.
(And though I personally didn't feel that a few minutes of whimpering really qualified as «cry it out,» I sure knew what my online buddies would have to say about it.)
Signs your pooch may give you that a foxtail is causing big problems are a bloody nose or lots of sneezing all of a sudden, incessant pawing at the ear, chewing on a paw pad or other spot, leaky eyes, and lots of whimpering and whining, especially when the affected area is touched.
You just don't hear that sort of whimpering nowadays.
Without much of a whimper, the general public accepted these tests, which increased the esteem of the psychological profession and secured its services in education and industry.
«Each of us has our ways of whimpering and giving in to the monster, or rising to slay it with technological indignation.
But it stayed there till its mission ended on Sept. 15, 2017 — with a bang, and a good deal of whimpering from Earth.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies draws Jackson's second Tolkien trilogy to a close with kind of a whimper.
It's too long, poorly paced, and ends with somewhat of a whimper.
The noise of whimpers calling for food and attention.
This could have been a recipe for disaster leading to yet another story of a whimpering woman who can't take care of herself without a beefy protector.
It is much more of a whimper than the bang the Podolski has enjoyed for most of his life on the football pitch.
We finished the season on a bit of a whimper but had done enough to stay up after a 4 - 0 home win against Hull in the penultimate game of the season.
For a show that was so urgent, so pointed, so charged, it did conclude with something of a whimper.
I took her out to pee at 5:15 this morning (she hadn't gone since 10:15 pm the night before) and after a lot of whimpering (because it is so cold here in Ottawa Canada) she peed.
So we go out with a bit of a whimper, not with a bang.
Ukip's spring conference was more of a whimper than a bang in all but one regard: commentators are saying, among them in the Telegraph and on Politics.co.uk, that it marked the point at which the party stepped over a line.
It's the characters and their dilemmas that propel this series, and this one concludes with more of a whimper than a bang.
Legend of the NeverBeast ends the Disney Fairies series with more of a whimper than a bang, but these movies have always been a little better than they have to be and this final installment is no exception.
The final third of the film loses its way a little, ending on more of a whimper than a bang.
Okja was announced some time ago as a Netflix exclusive, and it arrived with a bit of a whimper (as is so often the case with Netflix original films).
January's going out with a bit of a whimper, but still, manga!
March will end with a bit of a whimper and April looks to be starting with a bang.
It's said to be the last Dark Souls game, and gamers are all agreeing that it went out with a bang instead of a whimper.
And Allo, Google's big bet to bring AI bots to messaging apps, landed with more of a whimper than a bang.
2017 ended with a bit of a whimper, as contract activity on our region's real estate market cooled off along with the weather.
2017 ended with a bit of a whimper, as contract activity on our region's real estate market cooled off...
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