Sentences with phrase «of a whimper in»

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.

My animals are neutered so there are no heat cycles, no ovarian cancer, no pyometra, no testicular cancer and what do you know, not one of them whimpered in pain licking their genitals.

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«Each of us has our ways of whimpering and giving in to the monster, or rising to slay it with technological indignation.

(The merest whimper of the thesis can be discerned when he states that crusading was «reinvented» after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187, or when he refers to Innocent's contribution to the Crusades as «a sort of creation.»)

Do we see the universe as simply ending in a whimper, even if it came into existence with a bang, or do we see it as capable of renewal and transformation?

Yet this «whimper» of a story might be one of the most significant legislative decisions in our time.

and in that way, it is not the words of God... rather, it is a number of dogs in the pack explaining their experience with (and understanding of) sonic booms and explosion waves with dog comprehension and in dog terms, so that all we dogs can «pack up» and growl in the right direction... and stop whimpering in a corner overcome by fear.

No one had any problem contemplating some Big Bang of «happening to come to be» nor, at least in later years, does anyone have severe doubts that, whether with Bang or Whimper, this fragile world of ours could cease to be.

And after his heart beat no more, he rested in the earth while the devil sang shrill victory songs, only to hear his whiny whimper when the God of Everything rose again, thrust away death's icy grip, and revealed afresh just who God was and is and is to be.»

Last weekend he pulled a muscle in his back so spent much of the time trembling and whimpering in pain.

Andrew Reitzer faces the toughest year of his 14 years in the grocery business ahead of his expected retirement next year but he looks determined to not go out with a whimper.

And that is how the McElwain era ended; not with a whimper, but with a three - week bang in which old issues compiled on top of new ones.

This was the most dissapointing season for years, struggling in the Champions league, no leadership in the league, beat by a much lesser team in the league cup and bowing out of the FA Cup with a whimper.

i can see wot you mean ice, there all like minded and all the same type player, evenin how easily they get injured, its mad... but im not sure where we would put def minded players in a system that has served us wel thus far, i just think the players we hav did nt work hard enough to getbehind the ball yesterday and alot of it was left to song whod been on intern duty and had travelled halfway round the world to get home, like i said i was hugely dissapointed with nasri, ros and ramsey who i felt did nt put in a shift worthy of beating such a resolute opponent, even AW was exasperated after the game and offered no excuse just that you cant expect to win games / leagues on this performance... when we go down i these games its always the same, with a whimper... there were 15 mins left when we conceded and you could be sure utd and chelsea woulda got their equaliser but we simply cant re-raise our game when wer only going through the motions in these games

Spain «s dominance of international football may have been brought to an end in Brazil three summers ago after Vicente del Bosque's men surrendered their world title with a whimper, but let's not forget that they dominated it the decade beforehand.

Barely days after they were dumped out of the UEFA Europa League with a whimper, Liverpool are back in action aiming to qualify for the exact same competition they really couldn't care less about.

Lambert's lions whimpered rather than roared today and they will need to sharpen their claws ahead of next week's trip to the manager's previous club, Norwich City, as Villa are now without a win in three games and without a clean sheet in twenty - seven.

The Trotters are still nursing an FA Cup semi-final hangover it would seem, losing 5 - 0 to Stoke last month to miss out on the opportunity to feature in this weekend's show - piece against Manchester City, and are now finishing a campaign full of promise with a real whimper, with last week's 2 - 1 reverse to Sunderland at home their third consecutive defeat following disappointing outcomes away at first Fulham (3 - 0) before helped Blackburn, who were previously without a win for ten games, to end their barren streak (1 - 0).

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.

It really was a case of men against boys, one of the more demoralising defeats I've seen for a long time, possibly ever, such was the dismal manner in which Arsenal exited the competition, which was with a whimper and without registering a single shot during the whole of the second leg in Spain.

This impressive streak of theirs has come against testing opponent's, in matches and in scenarios where previous Tottenham sides would have rolled over and relinquished valuable points with a whimper.

Lots of new parents make the mistake of rushing in to comfort their baby when they hear the smallest whimper.

I truly believe that my decision to move away from co-sleeping (and yes, responding to every whimper in the middle of the night, that was my second epiphany, which came later, but I won't bore you with the details) is a big reason why my son, at 10.5 months is often very alert, interactive and funny when other kids are rubbing their eyes and clinging to their moms.

I've found with my little two year old guy that there's moments where I want to get in the car and drive away while whimpering quietly to myself, but there's other times (and luckily more of them...) that I just want to die of a cute attack.

As the mothers screamed and whimpered and pleaded their way along, I didn't look that blissful to me — and by the end, a couple of them didn't seem that interested in their babies, either.

Within seconds of laying him in his crib he would begin whimpering.

Still, while the theory behind his philosophy «that the more time babies spend in their mothers» arms, the better the chances they will turn out to be well - adjusted children» and that «every baby's whimper is a plea for help and that no infant should ever be left to cry» sound reasonable, they can also lead to inferences of guilt and anxiety for moms who fear that spending any time away from their child could fuck him or her up for life.

I hear the sweet whimper of an infant that is not my own and turn to see proud new parents with a baby gently hidden behind protective layers of blankets in his car seat.

I felt awkward about breastfeeding in front of the various health care providers who were taking his temperature and monitoring his oxygen levels, but I couldn't refuse my desperate, whimpering little boy.

Most moms want to make sure her baby is safe and comfortable, and will run in at the slightest sign of crying or whimpering.

I would fall asleep alone, clutching to the feeling of my old self, then wake up to the sound of my daughter's whimpers, heart thudding in my chest as I remembered my new reality.

If Florida in 2000 was tragedy, McCain / Palin is farce: this round of conservatism ends not with a whimper, but with a ragged fearful howl in the dark.

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.

Those were the major accomplishments in a New York legislative session that ended Wednesday with a whimper and lots of unfinished business.

Of course in Albany, nothing is linked until everything is at the end, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo may not want to end a tumultuous session that saw two of the state's top legislative leaders in handcuffs end with a whimpeOf course in Albany, nothing is linked until everything is at the end, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo may not want to end a tumultuous session that saw two of the state's top legislative leaders in handcuffs end with a whimpeof the state's top legislative leaders in handcuffs end with a whimper.

At the time both dresses were out of stock, so I inwardly whimpered a bit, tried to find them in stock anywhere else, failed, inwardly whimpered some more, then gave up.

The inclusion of an absurd yet thoroughly captivating celebrity cameo, which essentially stands as a high point within the entire series, perpetuates Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb's better - than - expected third - act atmosphere, although, unfortunately, director Shawn Levy ensures that the film concludes with a whimper by offering up an excessively sappy final stretch that just goes on and on - with this underwhelming climax confirming the movie's place as an almost passable concluding entry in a seriously forgettable trilogy.

Charmed by his good looks and Cary Grant - like suave, there isn't much more than a whimper of protest before she's hooked on his arm in an impossible 2 - person mission to stop the Bosnians.

Writer / director Scott Cooper's latest film, Hostiles, starts with a bang and ends with a whimper, but it's what happens in between those diametrically opposed sensations that makes this one of the most engaging and complex films of 2017.

For all the cinematic dreck currently peddling disorienting editing as «action,» no one in good conscience could deride Tarantino for his indulgence in split screens or extreme close ups or smash zooms or any other mode of cinematic gimmickry, when it affords us hauntingly sparse centerpieces such as The Bride's live burial, an aural choir of oppressive dirt, panting whimpers, and futile struggling set to the visual accompaniment of pitch black confinement that stretches on well past any spectator's comfort level.

I am a big fan of Scorsese's work, and even more so, the three notable actors - but by the end, I found myself laughing at the endless whispering voiceovers, the convoluted plot and self indulgent performances, culminating in my uproarious laughter when the voice of God encourages a whimpering Garfield to «step on me.»

That opinion being voiced in the first place is enough for studios to take pause and, even if it's been heard before, the dissemination of the internet can turn even a whimper into a roar.

Yet Meg doesn't hate Nick and Nick, for his part, isn't quite the milquetoast he presents himself as in moments like these, when he falls on the street and injures his knee to the ringing, castrating laughter of his mate, or when he infers that Meg wants to leave him and starts to whimper like a child.

I think it's interesting that McCarthy's follow - up, The Road, is set in the post-apocalypse — in a broad sense, all of his books since All the Pretty Horses have been roughly chronological, making No Country for Old Men (and the film of it, and all the great films of 2007) a chronicle of Armageddon: all whimpers and no bang; I hardly noticed it happening, and now it's done and there's no helping it.

Of course, I don't think Samantha Morton could act badly if you told her to, but this has to have been one of the more challenging roles she's ever taken on... not just anyone can turn a whimpering, confused (psychic) kidnapping victim in a sci - fi picture into a serious and introspective dramatic rolOf course, I don't think Samantha Morton could act badly if you told her to, but this has to have been one of the more challenging roles she's ever taken on... not just anyone can turn a whimpering, confused (psychic) kidnapping victim in a sci - fi picture into a serious and introspective dramatic rolof the more challenging roles she's ever taken on... not just anyone can turn a whimpering, confused (psychic) kidnapping victim in a sci - fi picture into a serious and introspective dramatic role.

The Hunger Games, which kicked off in a blaze of guts «n» glory in 2012, ends now with a sad whimper, along with a lot of big bangs signifying nothing.

Late one night, Bob discovers said puppy abandoned and whimpering in a trash can in front of Nadia's (Noomi Rapace) seedy apartment.

Punctuated by a handful of well - observed scenes that belong in a better film (including a hypnotic close - up of Huppert's face that seems to last an eternity), it's ultimately a flat, ineffectual affair that goes off with a whimper rather than a bang.

Luckily, a post-Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston isn't in his first Wes Anderson movie just to give a whimper of a performance.

JK Simmons roars as a drill sergeant of a conductor and we gratefully whimper in response.