«Each of us has
our ways of whimpering and giving in to the monster, or rising to slay it with technological indignation.
Not exact matches
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.
Learn alternative
ways of comforting rather than automatically reaching for formula at the first
whimper.
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.
I nursed my sons to sleep, then returned to our family bed to co-sleep for the rest
of the night, during which they would worm their
way closer and wake up
whimpering for milk.
The final third
of the film loses its
way a little, ending on more
of a
whimper than a bang.
In 20th Century Women, a far easier session on the optic nerves, Fanning plays a lustrous, restless, teenage sunflower in Santa Barbara who moves like a pop tune through air, teaches a young lad the proper dude
way to smoke and swagger, and mimics the
whimpering moans
of male lust with fond disdain.
The difference between us and our pets is that our pets can't outright tell us that they're in pain - often, the exact opposite is true - they hide all signs
of pain as a survival mechanism they developed over thousands
of years
of evolution to keep weakness hidden from predators and other members
of their own colonies, Your pet may tell you in different
ways when they are uncomfortable, such as by whining or
whimpering, staying too still and showing little interest in what's going on around them, sleeping more than usual, becoming aggressive or intolerant
of petting or exercise or even by becoming more active - pacing, circling, wandering - as the pain is too much for them to sit still and rest.
A hurt dog may express this vocally in a number
of ways: whining,
whimpering, yelping, growling, snarling, and even howling.
Not just a
whimper but a bang: Postwar art overturned T. S. Eliot's prediction
of the
way the world would end, producing visions
of both spectacle and negation, euphoric flash and nihilistic critique.
This short summary
of events helps us understand why we went from ambitious procedural rules to simple technical notes or, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot's «The Hollow Men», how ODR will be making its
way into UNCITRAL documents, not with a bang but a
whimper.