Sentences with phrase «whimper of»

Looking at real temperature reconstructions using ice cores, sediment studies, etc give a very clear context to the whimper of an effect, if any, we as humans are having on temperatures.

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

Danny Says, then, ends on a muted whimper of a note that one doesn't expect given that its subject is such an immensely entertaining raconteur.

It ends with a total whimper of a cinematic — better than the non-existent ending of Super Double Dragon, but insultingly lazy from a writing standpoint.

Without Antonio Banderas, The Big Bang would be a whimper of a movie, too awful to watch, but then again without Antonio Banderas, the movie probably would never have gotten made.

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.

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.

God shows up — not with a parade but with the whimper of a baby, not among the powerful but among the marginalized, not to the demanding but to the humble.

(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.»)

A crowded, co-slept slumber jolted to a halt as the whimpers of hunger suspended dreams of my fictitious bikini body sipping something colorful on a powdered, Bahamian beach.

One night around this time, I woke to the whimpers of my daughter as my husband carried her down the hall to our room.

The writer - director Rick Alverson heard the dying whimpers of the white American male demographic before they became a roar.

The Whipple supercharger emits a friendly whine at idle, the whimpering of an engine that wants to rev. Given the chance to clip an apex, the GT350 hunkers down neatly, its live rear axle forgotten about on smooth surfaces.

Based on the whimpers of the young women coming out of a preview screening, «Beautiful Creatures,» the movie, isn't nearly faithful enough to «Beautiful Creatures,» the novel.»

Luckily, and amazingly, the cops heard the whimpers of the dogs, many of which were in crowded crates that were too small to allow them to stand, and many were covered with feces.

From the first labor pain to the moment of delivery there is much agony and writhing, shouts of «I can't do this anymore» and whimpers of «will this never end.»

Not exact matches

So is it inevitable that you'll end your 2017 with a whimper instead of a bang?

End - of - financial - year specials failed to maintain May's positive tone on new car sales for Western Australia, with numbers for June down 5.5 per cent as the financial year ended with a whimper.

Sales of Apple's 4 - inch iPhone SE began with a whimper, according to Slice Intelligence, an analytics firm that extracts marketable data from the e-mail receipts of four million compliant online shoppers.

«They didn't send us here to whimper, whine or grovel,» she said on the Senate floor about Democrats, using the populist rhetoric that has given her one of her party's highest profiles.

You might have heard that the American Health Care Act, aka Trumpcare, went out with not so much a bang but a whimper on the floor of the House of Representatives last week (it didn't even get a vote).

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

On the subject of religious controversy, 2013 started off with a bang, not a whimper.

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.

Most of you sound like whimpering dufasses, crybabying about gun when you should look at the root cause, flamboyant liberalism or liberalism without boundaries.

Good lord, the US is overwrought with whimpering idi0t $ afraid of their own shadow.

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.

Bleeding hearts do throb for heavily weighted undulations of ever to inwardly revolve with not much whimpered bitterness and they will even and always proclaim them not their deadenedness sarcasms.

On the contrary, he finds it useful to ponder an array of reductionist attempts to explain the existence of religion, from that which seeks to pinpoint the area of the human brain or the specific genes connected to religiosity to that which sees religion as a malfunction of the human mind or a vestigial remnant from a primitive stage of human development suitable only for whimpering, immature dullards (a point of view championed by the new atheists).

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.

They were shivering and whimpering and I was Googling away and of course when that happens it's worst case scenario.

My favorite bread memory::: bread whimper::: is using lovely French bread to soak up the juice from a freshly sliced tomato during the height of summer.

At one point I heard the neighboring carnivores come out of their caves to make whining, whimpering noises, but sorry folks, only enough meat to feed my famished five.

No alarm clock, just the scratching sound of her pawing at her crate and her faint whimpers to come up on the bed.

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.

Today, he whimpered, reminding me that I have a choice... well sort of.

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.

It's the sum of months of tailored training and calculation for the sport's crowns jewel — the Grand Boucle — come to a whimper.

A point minimum is needed today with a performance we can be proud of, no whimpering and disappearing.

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.

Yet they turned a historically great offense into a whimpering shell of itself.

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.

It would be surprising if the likes of Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Eric Dier, Kyle Walker and Danny Rose were not affected by their poor performances and the huge criticism aimed at them since bowing out with a whimper against Iceland.

Not enough guys willing to up it out there at the moment and they need a telling at half time, hopefully Wenger will go to the gents and Bouldy could get stuck into them cos this is another of those «out without a whimper» performances.

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.

Chelsea came with a negative outset but it's all Monreal and testament to the Spaniard that the favourite for PFA Player of the Season was kept largely to a whimper for much of the game — the same can be said to fellow Spaniard, and full back, Bellerin.