Before the final bang -- or was it a whimper?
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Or submit or whimper or go in the other room?
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Free speech dies with a whimper and people just shrug.
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They didn't send us here to whimper, whine or grovel.
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But mainland markets opened this year with quite a whimper.
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Identity, by contrast, both begins and ends with a whimper.
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So far, there's hardly been even a whimper of protest.
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But this is how the world ends: with a whimper.
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His speech ended not with a bang but a whimper.
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In most projections, though, the end is more whimper than bang.
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O'Rourke's campaign began with a bang and ended with a whimper.
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It was part moan, part whimper, and Lane crawled toward it.
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Alex Rodriguez left with a whimper at Fenway Park last month.
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But rather than a bang, the U.K. left with a whimper.
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The vast majority end with a whimper not with a bang.
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What arrived on British television with a bang departs with a whimper.
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The DNC started with a bang but quickly descended into a whimper.
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Better to go out with a bang than a whimper, we guess.
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I'm not the kind of guy to go out with a whimper.
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What caused the debt and deficit issues to disappear without a whimper?
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For now, at least, the response is sounding more like a whimper.
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We will crash with happiness; we refuse to end with a whimper.
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But when the plan landed on Tuesday, it was with a whimper.
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BRUSSELS — Britain is leaving the European Union this weekend with a whimper.
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"I said no," Al Bakr said, as the baby made a small whimper.
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His injury-plagued 2015 season also meant he went out with a whimper.
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The question now is how it ends – with a whimper or a bang.
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With a sad whimper, Grace scrambled to grab onto the banister and failed.
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So far, the markets have ushered in the new year with a whimper.
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With a Yankees-orchestrated whimper instead of an all-out public relations war?
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Three centuries of the Romanov dynasty came to an end without a whimper.
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The Boston Celtics slunk out of the 2019 N.B.A. playoffs with a whimper.
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This is how democracy ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
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In the case of Merkel, it is likely to end in a whimper.
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Todd's streak of 12 straight rounds in the 60s ended with a whimper.
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If the FPO enters the government this time, expect little more than a whimper.
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The boom has ended not with a pop, as in 2250, but a whimper.
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Will fans see this as going out with a whimper instead of a bang?
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Just because: What if felt like a whimper instead of any sort of bang?
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I whimper and throw back my head as the orgasm comes hard and fast.
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"It was just a whimper," Deputy Ross Jessop said, describing the sound he heard.
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No wonder Trump's finger-to-the-planet Paris decision prompted scarcely a British whimper.
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Oftentimes the boycott starts with a great deal of enthusiasm and ends with a whimper.
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Michael Sweet, partner at Fox Rothschild, said this legal fight is ending with a whimper.
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For now, the long-awaited merger is more of a whimper than the Big Bang.
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Still, I wouldn't be surprised if the Titans managed only a whimper in free agency.
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You might actually like Apple News nowApple News launched with a whimper with iOS 9.
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PodCase's search for $300,000 on Kickstarter has ended — not with a bang but a whimper.
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Will this retired former superstar whose career ended with a whimper come back and dominate?
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When Donald Trump released his latest budget proposal on Monday, it landed with a whimper.
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It was heartbreaking to hear his little boy whimper when he saw the technicians coming.
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And that might also explain why a dog's whimper pulls at our heartstrings more effectively.
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The Mad Bomber's 17-year reign of random terror had finally ended, with a whimper.
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The U.C.L.A. sunglasses-stealing saga concluded Wednesday, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
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Did we really think they would be extinguished with a whimper rather than a fight?
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A political dynasty ended not with a bang, but with choked-back tears and a whimper.
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Banks' trading desks ended 2018 with a whimper – and nowhere as much as at Morgan Stanley.
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The new No. 1 (Karolina Pliskova) just lost with a whimper in the second round here.
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The country declines not with a bang but with a whimper: the Italy-fication of Britain.
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And this is the way social networking services end: somewhere between a bang and a whimper.
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With that in mind, we've rounded up a selection of reads guaranteed to make you whimper.
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This will be the way America's ascendancy ends — not with a bang, but with a whimper.
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Not with a bang, but with an early-morning whimper to please, please make me coffee.
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So, it's still anyone's guess whether this thing will end in a bang or a whimper.
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It is all the more fitting that the relationship ended with a whimper, not a bang.
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If Republicans have accepted this latest atrocity with barely a whimper, what else will they accept?
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We knew we were going down, so we thought, Let's not go out with a whimper.
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A small sound resembling a human voice, perhaps a whimper, can be heard on the recording.
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Not with a bang but with a whimper came this next chink in weight-cutting's armor.
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"I whimper a little each time," she said of the four-bedroom Craftsman-style house. Mrs.
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The '21919s began with more of a whimper than a roar, to judge from January's headlines.
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I'm on record as saying he'll go out with a whimper, and I'll stick to that.
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IPO day might have marked the last battle cry — or whimper — of the Uber of old.
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We still cheer for the congenial Bellas, but their journey has been stretched into a thin whimper.
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Here's one thing for sure: Whether Yahoo ends with a bang or a whimper, end it will.
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Sega's console aspirations went out with a financial whimper when it released the Sega Dreamcast in 1998.
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Outside of the occasional whimper, the legacy media simply cannot seem to focus on this purported outrage.
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Strategies The stock market ended 19623 with a whimper and began the new year with a shudder.
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It is all happening without a whimper of opposition from Congress or from most civil liberties organizations.
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When the applause of hostility is out of earshot, he tones down his vitriol to a whimper.
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The Republican candidates' fight over whether women should be drafted started with a whimper, not a bang.
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Last summer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested that the death penalty would eventually end with a whimper.
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But when she approached the dog's body, Bonnie started to whimper and eventually tried to stand up.
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Val became an expert at recognizing my whimper and dashing into the room with her sneaker aloft.
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"I took what I had to for my kids," Garcia said with a whimper, hanging her head.
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It is that it lost games with barely a whimper, all of that old spirit seemingly spent.
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As with most things Christie these days, the audition ended not with a bang but a whimper.
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The third quarter could start with a whimper, coming on the Friday before a long summer holiday weekend.
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A strangled sound issued, followed by a high-pitched whimper, and Mỹ let go of her toilet brush.
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It went not with a bang, or a whimper, but to the rustle of real estate stock shares.
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Later, he instructs Chewbacca to growl "sad like a dog whimper," and bounces around the film's impressive set.
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"Bless you, babe," her dad says, as the parents giggle and whimper at how cute their daughter is.
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Why does one product come to dominate culture and another pass away without so much as a whimper?
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It's hard to pinpoint precisely when Web 2.0 ended, but it died with a whimper, not a bang.
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The Supreme Court's current term may have started with a whimper, but it will end with a bang.
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Not with T.S. Eliot's proverbial whimper, but with the breathless gasps of one unfamiliar with exerting any effort.
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Maybe that's what will happen; if so, the president's defining immigration initiative will end with an anonymous whimper.
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After opening with a whimper, the tournament returned with a roar Friday afternoon, and no favorite seemed safe.
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Nashville might be on its way out (or maybe not) but it won't go out with a whimper.
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But a rivalry that began with something of a roar will go out with more of a whimper.
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About a minute into the video, the man appears to let out a whimper before submerging, fully, underwater.
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When the man searched for the source of the whimper, he found a moving paw emerging from the ground.
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Sign up here for more analysis of US politics for global readers Did Baghdadi really "whimper" before he died?
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But to paraphrase T. S. Eliot, their careers tend to end not with a bang, but with a whimper.
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Our revolution has ended before it even began...and it went out with a whimper, rather than a bang.
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He has gone not with a bang, as he arrived, nor with a whimper, but a simple fading away.
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But that offering ended with a whimper as investors questioned whether the deeply unprofitable company could ever make money.
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But after all that, Walt Disney Studios ended the 20th century and kicked off the 21st with a whimper.
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" Weigel tweeted, "By contrast, the Democrats' base was watching them fold and whimper and clearly getting sick of it.
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FILM-LION-KING-REVIEWS/ New 'Lion King' movie lands with a critical whimper LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The much-anticipated new version of animated movie classic "The Lion King" landed with a whimper rather than a roar on Thursday with critics hailing it as visually impressive but tame in terms of character and storytelling.
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It was a partnership that ended with a whimper, with the arrival of 2015's Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5.
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I whimper on the inside and put it on my credit card, which is APR-free for another three months.
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He ended thus with a whimper, unwilling to check the implementation of the Trump administration's bigotry into policy and practice.
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London (CNN Business)Global stocks have closed out a dreadful year with a whimper, signaling more potential declines in 24.6.
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This past weekend, Hell Fest kicked off the October slasher box office with more of a whimper than a scream.
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It is impossible to rule out the possibility that the investigation will end with a whimper, rather than a bang.
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The dog doesn't bark or whimper in complaint even though the expression on its face is one of profound misery.
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He came in with a bang, went out with a whimper but like so many X's, he misses the action.
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Shortly after in 2016, the SGA died with a whimper—and the dream of a regional, Southern progressivism with it.
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First, young Sam, petrified of the monsters around him, starts to whimper about how he doesn't want to press on.
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And Allo, Google's big bet to bring AI bots to messaging apps, landed with more of a whimper than a bang.
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She seemed unable to find any answers to the questions Kozlova was posing, and checked out early with barely a whimper.
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So now, with a quiet whimper of irrelevance, BlackBerry departs the smartphone market that it once helped to shape and define.
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Because the Meeseeks weren't the only "meh" whimper from a show that's known for kicking off new seasons with a bang.
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Messages will now allow you to increase the size of text to emphasize texting as either a yell or a whimper.
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He complained that the United States had raised not a whimper when Mr. Batista had tortured and executed thousands of opponents.
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Hard-liners in Iran are exultant, having attacked major Saudi oil facilities with scarcely a whimper from the Saudis or Trump.
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The great bond bull market that began in 1981 is ending with a whimper, fixed income guru Bill Gross said Wednesday.
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And Mr. Varone's work demands belief — from its cast, from its audience — or it's all just a wash and a whimper.
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But the effort will go forward on a whimper if the party suffers yet another disappointment on health care this week.
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It started with a bang, with economic growth of 21980% for the region in 22010, which quickly became a long whimper.
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"We can whimper, we can whine or we can fight back," she said, as demonstrators in pink hats waved American flags.
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The year started out with more of a whimper than a bang, with the delayed HomePod speaker finally shipping in early February.
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The Book of MBy Shepherd PengJune 5In Shepherd Peng's brilliant debut, the world doesn't end with a bang or with a whimper.
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He'll moan, howl, and whimper in a manner that's borderline pornographic; he'll even let you watch, if that's what you really want.
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The Operation that began with a bang ended with a whimper, and Bell was released and quietly walked out of the clubhouse.
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Unlike another of his late-career works, "Our Kind of Traitor" (2010), this novel ends not with a bang but a whimper.
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Tax season is starting off with a whimper, as 23.95 in 21.99 people predict they will owe the IRS this tax season.
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But the vision of art that can grab its audience and make them whimper, scream, or even bleed has a definite visceral appeal.
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But it's abundantly clear that opening them to a nationwide whimper killed these movies before they even had a chance to take off.
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The iPad Mini is likely going out with a whimper after being gobbled up by its slightly smaller cousin, the iPhone 7 Plus.
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"Here is certainly a world ending not with a bang but a whimper, and the film serves as a cautionary warning," Ebert concluded.
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Much to the dismay of single-payer advocates, our current health insurance system is likely to end with a whimper, not a bang.
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Tuesday's House of Representatives hearing on private equity landed with a whimper, after more than a week of escalating rhetoric from progressive Democrats.
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So she has killed off Maura Pfefferman, Tambor's transgender protagonist, and wrapped up the show not with a whimper but with a song.
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But the most likely outcome today is that the report goes out with more of a whimper than a bang -- in political terms.
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We found ourselves going out of our way to hit potholes dead on just to watch the Raptor shrug them off without a whimper.
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Fortunately, they wrote very good things for me toward the end and allowed me to go out with a bang rather than a whimper.
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But look again at Game of Thrones and you'll start to see why The Big Bang Theory is going out with a relative whimper.
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SUMMIT ENDS WITH A WHIMPER Yet once the leader of the EU's most troublesome nation was out of the way, the real divisions began.
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S. Eliot famously wrote that the world would end with a whimper rather than a bang, but a cough might be the likelier scenario.
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"US corporate earnings season has started with more of a whimper than a bang," said Nick Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, in a note.
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But even the doctor, when I had surgery in 2005, said, 'Listen, this pain is going to go away with a whimper, not a bang.
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Today, Avenir's Indiegogo campaign for the Energizer battery-with-a-phone-in-it concluded with a whimper, having accumulated a scant $15,005 in pledged support.
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This is how an abuser is redeemed: Not with the whimper of even half-hearted attempts at reconciliation, but with the bang of thunderous applause.
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There's no surefire formula, and many businesses that must have seemed like can't-miss propositions disappeared with a whimper, their dreams of global domination crushed.
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The economy ended last year on a whimper, expanding less than 1 percent for a number of reasons including weaker trade and falling business investment.
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But why a particular one either throws down storm upon storm or simple fizzles into the ocean with barely a whimper has been a mystery.
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The album emphasizes Vernon's vocal garble, which is to his prior angelic whimper as Young Thug's absurdist soundpoetry is to generic rappers mumbling their verses.
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On Thursday, the Ifo Business Climate Index showed that Germany's economy started the third quarter with a whimper, with weakness across manufacturing, trade and services.
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However, where Clinton has managed to secure several high-profile endorsements from Republicans, Trump's outreach to black voters has been less bang and more whimper.
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It's a pathetic whimper from a crushed spirit—a boy whose birthday party no one showed up to so he claimed they weren't invited anyway.
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Milosh moans abjectly, belaboring the pulsating whimper at the back of the throat, as if convinced a man overwhelmed with voluptuous sensory delight swallows morphemes.
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When your ability to stand and bang in our outside of the cage fades, maybe there's nothing left to do but end with a whimper.
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Normally these kinds of big-think books end with a whimper, as the author totally fails to identify solutions to the problem he is writing about.
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He came in with a bang, went out with a whimper, but like so many X's, he misses the action & just can't keep his mouth shut,.
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What began with a bang of promises of comprehensive tax reform will end with a whimper: The only large change will be to the national debt.
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In the end, the Doha round went out with a whimper rather than a bang, the WTO acknowledging "different views on how to address the negotiations".
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The way he handled his pain and discomfort day after day and kept moving on without ever a whimper was something I had never witnessed before.
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It usually begins with a whimper — some static here, weird fadeouts there — and I can usually fix it with a few delicate twists of the jack.
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The Justice Department's pursuit of Angelo R. Mozilo, one of Wall Street's most recognizable names tied to the subprime mortgage crisis, is ending with a whimper.
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The battle ended with a whimper when an unknown "third party" gave the FBI a way to hack in and the FBI abandoned its legal request.
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Mid-to-late August tends to be the time of year when earnings season "goes out with a whimper, not a bang," CNBC's said on Friday.
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If I'm feeling lonely or sad about something, and I'm cuddling next to my partner, I'll give him a whimper and a nuzzle to engage him.
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Surrounded by strange faces, the dog let out a bit of a whimper, but ultimately performed admirably, responding to a back scratch and recognizes its master's face.
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"Avengers: Endgame" is the epic finale to the story Marvel has been telling for the last decade, but did it end with a bang or a whimper?
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Some relationships slowly fizzle out with a whimper, while others come to an explosive end when it's suddenly clear that the good times are too far bygone.
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I whimper inside, but I suck it up — it's now day 11 post concussion and my symptoms are down to a meager 30 percent nuisance level anyway.
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For all the attention that big-time subpoenas get, 14 years at The Times has taught me that most of them go away with barely a whimper.
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With the original festivities scheduled to start today, it's unclear whether the horde will be huge or whether this bang will end with a poorly attended whimper.
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I never thought there was a possibility 43243 Republican senators would vote to convict, and so this will all end in a whimper with Trump claiming victory.
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I never thought there was a possibility 20 Republican senators would vote to convict, and so this will all end in a whimper with Trump claiming victory.
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It is more likely that democracy ends with a whimper, when the case for supporting it — the case, that is, for everyday democracy — is no longer compelling.
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Originally intended as the cover of Eduardo Parra's unpublished book of poems by the same name, the cardboard collage is more splat than boom, more whimper than bang.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The spring art sales ended with a bit of a whimper in New York on Thursday at Christie's' muted auction of Impressionist and modern art.
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While Newcastle and Sunderland looked like they might go down with a whimper a few weeks ago, both are now fighting ferociously to preserve their top-flight status.
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"I'll be right back" is something they'll never understand as they whimper by the door, and "July 4th is happening soon" is a reminder we just can't relay.
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And the Never Trump movement was put down with a whimper as the RNC and Trump campaign leaned hard on the rebels and those who considered joining them.
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They have locks that would make Fabio weep, puppy dog eyes that would make a Goldendoodle whimper, and lips that would make Kylie Jenner do a double take.
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Making a Murderer ends not with a bang, but with a whimper—the familiar sense that justice, at least in this case, may remain just out of reach.
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We must, then, uncover why we spent so much, in terms of the credibility of the presidency itself, just to end with a whimper, rather than a bang.
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Contrasting the cold sterility of her locations with a fiery emotional urgency, she pushes her increasingly distraught heroine from vulnerability to defiance, from a whimper to a roar.
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If it does, a politically charged clash between presidential power and claims of religious discrimination that could have produced a blockbuster decision will instead end with a whimper.
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Apart from his win at the Masters for his 15th major title, Woods had a relatively quiet season, which petered out without a whimper amid physical and emotional fatigue.
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That's roughly nine inches less than average and a whimper compared with the total last year, when a parade of storms buried the city in more than nine feet.
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Uber's much heralded public offering has arrived not so much with a bang as with a whimper, thanks largely to the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China.
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The UK Conservative Party's leadership battle, initially expected to be a lengthy, brutal contest between former London Mayor Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Theresa May, ended with a whimper.
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After losing the popular vote, Trump claimed to have evidence that millions of undocumented immigrants voted illegally, and formed a fraud commission that ended up disbanding with a whimper.
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Will the new freshmen class of Congress learn to just yes us continually until the roar fades to a whimper, which is apparently rule #2 in the Congressional handbook?
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He was, he admitted, surprised that the Soviet Union fell "with a whimper, not a bang," as he put it; he had feared the Cold War would end cataclysmically.
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But November's semiannual week of mega-sales began on Sunday with a whimper at Christie's Impressionist and modern art sale, which failed to meet its estimate by $25.8 million.
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Team director Jean-Louis Valentin resigned his position, while France went on to lose their final group game 2-1 to South Africa and exited the tournament with a whimper.
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Linda Greenhouse This is the way the term ends, This is the way the term ends, This is the way the term ends, Not with a bang but a whimper.
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As soon as the caseworker who had sat her there turned to go, she let out a whimper that rose to a thin howl, her crumpled face a bursting dam.
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Long John Silver's first opened in a combined store with burger chain A&W during the mid '00s on the outskirts of Sydney, arriving not with a bang but a whimper.
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The court showdown ended with a whimper when the FBI said it had found a way to get into the phone, and subsequently conceded privately it had found nothing of value.
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Following the group's 2006 breakup in the wake of the disappointing, overly-ambitious commercial flop Feedback, the hip-hop collective went their respective ways with nary a whimper after 13 years.
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U.S. stocks ended the first quarter with a whimper on Thursday after a seven-week rally that rescued the S&P 500 from its worst start to a year since 2009.
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Turns out that the powerhouse brand died with a whimper, not a bang, and finally went out of production in 2009 after filing for bankruptcy, with just $12,000 to its name.
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Los Angeles's season ended with a whimper in April after Chris Paul and Blake Griffin were badly injured, and a thrilling Western Conference semifinals made the Clippers seem like an afterthought.
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Though Djokovic came back to win the second set and celebrated with a once-trademarked roar, he went out with his latest whimper, losing 7-113 (3), 4-6, 29-26.
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Mr. Nevin responded to Dr. Mitchell's account by reading from a C.I.A. cable that described Mr. Mohammed letting out a "whimper, whine and moan" as guards led him to the waterboard.
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But not until I was home all day and heard him whimper almost constantly did I realize we were not doing this much-adored pet any favors by prolonging his life.
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House Democrats flubbed it the first time by spinning in circles, as Pelosi transparently slow-played the Mueller impeachment inquiry (or non-inquiry) to its seemingly inevitable whimper of an ending.
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"You'd rather end on something like that — progress on cancer moonshot — than, 'Hey I ended with a whimper, ended with a CR that went into the next person's term,'" Cole said.
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The workers whimper and cringe when you use it—to the point where the device begins to read as a kind of whip—and then shuffle toward whatever you are indicating.
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Trump added that Kelly "went out with a whimper" and "just can't keep his mouth shut," and he claimed that Kelly's wife promised that her husband would "only speak well" of Trump.
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The top spot is occupied by 2454, which is near the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan and has an average rent of $2458,220 (our bank account just let out a whimper).
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The saga ended in a manner appropriate to the United States Senate: with neither a bang nor a whimper, but with hours of pointless verbiage preceding the final vote just before 4pm.
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Apart from his win at the Masters for his 15th major title, the 43-year-old had a relatively quiet season, which petered out with a whimper amid physical and emotional fatigue.
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This is a whimper of an ending for LivingSocial, which once competed hard against Groupon for both merchants to list deals for their goods and services, and consumers to buy those offers.
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The Olympics always end with a disconcerting whimper, the medals frenzy peaking somewhere in the middle of week two and the last events sputtering out across an eerily calm final few days.
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But when Wolf Songs for Lambs came out in late 1997, it landed with a whimper, not particularly well received by critics or fans, and selling in the neighborhood of 10,000 copies.
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" I recently offered a vision here in The Hill of what North America would look like if America just passed away, in T.S. Eliot's phrase, "Not with a bang but a whimper.
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It represents the first opportunity to win something in any given season, and when most teams go out of it with a whimper it represents their first definitive shortfall of the campaign.
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They might have struggled to lay a glove on Manchester City; they might have slipped, without much of a whimper, to a dour 1-0 defeat, but they made for strange revolutionaries.
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Larry Fitzgerald, the team's dependable veteran standout who put up 176 receiving yards in last week's triumph, managed just four catches for 30 yards as his team went out with a whimper.
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Yes, Atlético Madrid, for so long regarded as soccer's most obdurate, unyielding opponent, the sport's great immovable object, collapsed into itself, Diego Simeone's players succumbing to their fate with barely a whimper.
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"The fact is that Alcoa has started this earnings season mot with a whimper, but with a bang, and maybe that is what this big move in stocks is really signaling," Cramer said.
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"Trump's attempt to weaponize the census ends not with a bang but a whimper," said Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Voting Rights Project, who argued the Supreme Court case.
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Kesha's tears are the tears we cry when we're so hurt and broken that we find the courage to whimper a complaint, and that complaint is received, laughed at, pissed on, and killed.
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After beginning their season-high seven-game road trip with a bang, the Los Angeles Kings are looking to avoid ending it with a whimper on Saturday as they visit the Nashville Predators.
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New York has mustered just 28 runs during a 3-8 stretch and closed its extended stay in the Bronx with a whimper in an 8-1 setback to Tampa Bay on Sunday.
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SoftBank Corp's initial public offering today started with a bang before trailing off into a whimper, with the stock falling 248 percent during its first day of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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Either they turn into a minimally interactive sequence of cutscenes, or they're so long that the structure breaks down into a series of mini-arcs, settling down to a whimper of an ending.
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"The FEC is supposed to be the nation's election watchdog, but in this case it didn't bite, bark, or even whimper," Adam Skaggs, chief counsel of Giffords Law Center, said in a statement.
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The Ringed City, possibly the last time you'll participate in the Age of Fire, ends with a whimper, an encounter that, until learning otherwise, I figured was a prelude to the final act.
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Los Angeles opened a four-game trip of their own with a whimper, falling 23-2115 at New Orleans on Tuesday and losing guard Nick Young to an Achilles injury in the process.
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But for all his achievements in New England, Brady's reign ended with a whimper when the Patriots were knocked out of the playoffs in a surprise loss to the Tennessee Titans in January.
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It's a world that ends, in his telling, with both a bang and a whimper: apocalyptic brass chords alternating with a hushed stillness, off which rises a mist of cimbalom and suspended cymbal.
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It was such a realistically vulnerable whimper that many of my officemates who knew not of his existence believed that a very sad and hungry dog had taken up residence beneath my desk.
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Unsurprisingly for a show that deals in various shades of steel-gray and black, The Night Of ended on neither a bang nor a whimper, but a series of doors closing and locking.
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Her helpless whimper is downright brutal to hear as this girl, who already feels unpretty and unlike other girls her age, is being forced to lose yet another thing that helps her feel normal.
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"Harry Reid of all people is going to go out with a bang and not a whimper," said Jon Ralston, a veteran political commentator based in Nevada who has watched Reid closely for years.
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He has banned Iván Velásquez, its head and a former Colombian prosecutor, from re-entering the country — all to scarcely a whimper from a Trump administration notoriously hostile to the United Nations and multilateralism.
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The artists featured in Not with a whimper but with a bang activate a divergent range of strategies of aesthetic extremism, creating works that leave little room for conflicting interpretations and take no prisoners.
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After six seasons, Mindy Kaling is saying "Later, baby" to her namesake show and, from the looks of the trailer for The Mindy Project's final season, she's going out with a bang, not a whimper.
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" This is disappointing, not only because I miss the fine work of Oliphant, Danziger and others, but because it seems the decision to eliminate the cartoons was made "not with a bang but a whimper.
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If he lets the bans dissolve on their own, the Supreme Court might be happy to cancel their October 10th affair and let the order meet its end with a whimper, rather than a bang.
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In her feature-directorial debut, Annabelle Attanasio, who also wrote the script, sidesteps the expected, as when one of Mickey's crucial relationships ends with a gnarled whimper rather than the explosion that seemed entirely likely.
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After spending $25 billion and nearly a decade, U.S. attempts to train and equip Iraqi troops ended with a whimper when those soldiers melted away the moment ISIS attacks first began a few years ago.
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I've always been skeptical of doomsday preppers, as I'm pretty sure modern life will end with a (climate-induced) whimper and not with a bang, meaning those canned peaches will be long expired by then.
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One assumes that the illusion designer, Ben Hart, was kept busy, as the composer and sound designer Adam Cork has certainly been: The play begins with a clamorous bang but tails off to a whimper.
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SMULDERS: My focus was more on Neil because Neil had to sit there and whimper and cry and we all just had to continue on and really enjoy his misery and I'm not good at that.
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Given the strength of these numbers through the first eight months of this year, the key question for the public markets is whether the year will close out just as strongly or die in a whimper.
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After all the hype and bluster, one of the biggest mixed martial arts fights of the year ended not with a bang, but a whimper and a rain of boos from the Madison Square Garden crowd.
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The not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper conclusion to the Mueller report reinforced a feeling that the cloud of corruption that has hung around Netanyahu for years should not be taken as proof of it.
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The study also found that cat and dog owners are more likely to empathize with an animal's distress calls, with owners getting sadder than non-owners when they heard a cat meow or a dog whimper.
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Opinion Columnist If your puppy makes a mess on your carpet and you shout "Bad dog," there is a good chance that that puppy's ears will droop, his head will bow and he may even whimper.
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I played on paper with my parents, and I always won, especially near the sixth consecutive hour, when they would start to whimper and plead with me to go do something else, like read comic books.
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An all-Canadian battle between Felix Auger-Aliassime and Milos Raonic ended with a whimper when the big-serving Raonic was forced to retire from the match with an apparent back issue ahead of the third set.
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The trio, with 14 Wimbledon titles between them, have been in blistering form while players such as Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas — younger men touted to end their hegemony at the majors — went out with a whimper.
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My latest trip ended on a whimper: a 14-hour drive, with the last two hours in the dark through driving rain and the last 10 minutes through a fog so thick I turned on my flashers.
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Alt-left anti-fascist activist group, 'Antifa,' continues to show up at political protests on college campuses across the US, sparking violence to promote its agenda Will the so-called "Antifa apocalypse" come with a bang or a whimper?
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More recently his labour minister, Muriel Pénicaud, tore up a soft deal agreed between unions and bosses over reform of France's inefficient publicly mandated training schemes and imposed her own more radical scheme, prompting little more than a whimper.
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"One of the most violent cities in America decided to cut its police force by about 25%, and there wasn't even a whimper of objection from the city council or any of the editorial powers in town," he says.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - There will be no golden end to Tony Parker's international career, nor silver or bronze either after France bowed out of the Olympic men's basketball tournament with a whimper on Wednesday falling 92-67 to Spain.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The much-anticipated new version of animated movie classic "The Lion King" landed with a whimper rather than a roar on Thursday with critics hailing it as visually impressive but tame in terms of character and storytelling.
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The bacchanalian overture that was his Big Night Out has ended in a dismal whimper, the stench of piss and urinal cakes coagulating in his nostrils, creating what must be some kind of olfactory nightmare you'd never truly wake from.
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We're getting to that stage, in the south of England at least, where the sky greets you with a confident, busting-past-your-curtains hello and not the watery whimper of cloud cover that barely seems to shift after sunrise.
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Another set of tricks turns the text box into a kind of slick, improvised web video: The "loud" effect makes the chat bubble stretch and tremble as it's delivered, while the "gentle" effect shrinks it down to visualize a whimper.
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Maybe it's your lot to sit at home keeping as cool as you can, devising a plan for how you're going to handle the pets when the fireworks come tonight and their adrenaline spikes and they start to whimper and shake.
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Every time she seems to be digging in for real, she scurries back to a bewildered head tone, and what should be the movie's musical centerpiece ends — well, I'll quote Eliot from another context — not with a bang but a whimper.
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But it documents Presley's voice going from unformed whimper to confident croon and leaves room to appreciate the gentle charms of early hits like "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" without worrying about the world-shaking smashes just around the corner.
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But as Arab and Muslim leaders raised their voices to condemn the move, many across the Middle East wondered if so much had changed in recent years that the real Arab response would amount to little more than a whimper.
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If your email inbox with hundreds of unread messages built a knot of anxiety in your chest, just wait until you whimper at the thought of replying to the same number of notifications for messages every boss will deem critical.
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With the possibility of another Category 2 storm in the offing, the festival ended with a whimper rather than a bang, as we were all awoken at 5AM to take the early boat back to the mainland before shit really hit the fan.
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For all intents and purposes, 20.1 is the end of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, but it will go out with a whimper, not a bang, since state Medicaid programs will have already been tightening their purse strings over the past few years.
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I've done this many times before, but this time, he lets out a small whimper and I start to throw myself on him, suddenly fueled by that vulnerability that comes out sparingly from this big man who thinks much too much of himself.
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And while it is now going out with more of a whimper than a bang, here are a few ways "Idol" had a major effect on pop culture: The rise of the amateur hour "American Idol" was actually transported from across the pond.
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This is how the smart home evolves: not with a bang, but with an early-morning whimper to please, please make me coffee Second, I still had to line and fill the coffee maker myself, in preparation for this magical smart coffee event.
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On Thursday, the campaigns of Russia's two entrants in the Europa League, CSKA Moscow and Krasnodar, drew to a close with a whimper: Krasnodar, which still held out hope of qualifying on the final day, was beaten, 3-203, by Getafe in Madrid.
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Similarly, the changes he has pushed through so far — like his lightening of the mammoth French labor code, with barely a whimper from the opposition — only buttress the narrative of individual determination, which he now hopes to infuse in his fellow citizens.
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Freighting everyday conversation with life-or-death importance has always been the style of Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a company best-known for its ambitious 10-part project, "Life and Times," which started with an astounding bang and fizzled to a multimedia whimper.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's latest share trading platform debuted with a whimper this week as just 23,000 euros ($25,460) worth of stock changed hands in Monday's first closing auction, but its parent Chicago-based CBOE said plenty of customers were lining up to use it.
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Reputation is set to emerge not with a bang but with a whimper — and that's in part because, for the first time since Swift first emerged into the cultural consciousness, the two sides of her persona are not cohering into a single sympathetic identity.
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It is finally over The 2018 Florida recount drama, a story told against the backdrop of the 2000 presidential recount, turned out to be like most sequels -- a story with a lot of hype that ultimately ended not with a bang, but a faint whimper.
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The world number 100 felt he rode his luck a little after giving up the third and fourth sets to the eighth seeded Italian young gun with barely a whimper before rallying to snatch his chance of one of the biggest victories of his career.
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And surely 10 Cloverfield Lane should get some points for the sheer ballsiness of that ending, which ramps up the energy and the action instead of letting it trail off to a whimper, and expands the story past a sordid little tale of kidnapping and murder.
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The LG G8 may have landed with more of a whimper than a bang when it came out earlier this year, but LG isn't letting that get it down, with a successor — the G8X — set to be revealed next month at the annual IFA show in Germany.
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Story at a glance In the same year that emphatic public outcries for climate change landed youth climate activist Greta Thunberg acclaim as Time's Person of the Year, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, colloquially known as COP25, ended not with a bang but a whimper.
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She sings two verses and two choruses with politely distant fatigue — "Whoohoohoohooh youoohoohooh nee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eee eeeded me" — and then, during the fadeout, starts moaning in a high whimper so quiet you might miss it.
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The truth is the Trump years will likely end with a whimper rather than a bang — just as the conclusion of Watergate did not lead to a cleansed and more ethical politics, and just as the financial crisis did not usher in a new era of ethical banking.
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On Baseball The Yankees' World Series hopes expired with a whimper late Tuesday night when Gleyber Torres hit a slow roller toward third base that Eduardo Nunez scooped up and threw to first baseman Steve Pearce — one former Yankee to another — just in time to record the final out.
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To some extent, experts said, in a country that just saw the Mueller investigation end with a whimper and features people of color withstanding more discrimination than ever in Ferguson, Missouri, after a federal probe there, it was only sensible to at least flirt with a conspiracy theory or two.
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This is how the company will end, not with the pop of a successful public offering, but with a whimper from defeated investors probably tired after the months-long saga of trying to make sense of how a clever real estate plan ballooned into one of the greatest swindles in venture capital history.
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He's playing what might be a meaningless game at the end of a great career that's dying with a whimper, and in between pitches and in between innings he's just thinking about how the hell his life led to this point, and whether there's anything to look forward to after he hangs up his cleats.
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When we encounter a mother doing too many things perfectly, smiling as if it were all so easy, so natural, we should feel a civic responsibility to slap her hard across the face and scream the word "Stop!" so many times that the woman begins to chant or whimper the word along with us.
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It was, all in all, another dysfunctional day in the State Capitol, where the Legislature appears poised to wrap up its three remaining weeks of session with a whimper — a fact acknowledged even by the legislators themselves, some of whom have begun discussing whether to just end the whole thing early to save taxpayers' money.
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Washington (CNN)Robert Mueller ended his two-year stint as special counsel with a bang disguised as a whimper: In a 10-minute statement announcing his resignation and the closure of the special counsel's office, the former FBI director sent a very clear message to anyone listening: I didn't charge Donald Trump with obstruction because I couldn't.
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At the time, actor Tom Hanks said he was "troubled by it," as was the Screen Actors Guild by the then mostly theoretical notion that filmmakers could take the raw material actors leave behind and concoct "a kind of cyberslave who does the producer's bidding without a whimper or salary," as the New York Times put it.
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Read more: 8 things every pet owner should know, according to expertsPet owners were found to be more attuned to 'distress sounds' from cats and dogsPeople who owned a cat or dog were more likely to be saddened by a whimper from a dog or a plaintive meow from a cat than non-pet-owners, the research found.
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Sometimes he liked to frighten me by turning quickly and opening his eyes wide and flaring his lips, this snowy beast, and then smile when I began to whimper, and although my heart detonated each time, I liked it, too, for the way it was him and not him and him again, in the span of a gasp.
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Future and Yo Gotti – No Ceilings 2, 2015 No Ceilings 2 is the whimper with which Wayne went out last, his most recent full-length project and one of his most maligned (a quick survey of reviews: 2/5 from HipHopDX, C+ from Consequence of Sound, "Thanks, But No Thanks" from Complex, no review from Pitchfork).
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Red Bulls 1, Atlanta United 0 (Atlanta wins, 23-20, on aggregate) HARRISON, N.J. — The Red Bulls — so solid in winning Major League Soccer's regular-season title this year — went out of the playoffs with barely a whimper Thursday night, failing this year to offer their steadfast, shivering fans so much as the usual playoff tease.
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The Trump years will likely end with a whimper rather than a bang — just as the conclusion of Watergate did not lead to a cleansed and more ethical politics (though there was a flurry of reforms that improved things for a spell), and just as the financial crisis did not usher in a new era of ethical banking (same).
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The most exciting business news story of 210 ended with a whimper this week as reports surfaced that Amazon's HQ230 project would in fact be two smaller projects, one on Long Island City in Queens and the other in Crystal City across the Potomac from Washington, DC. Opening two regional branch offices rather than opening a gigantic "second headquarters" makes pragmatic sense.
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Witnessing the cabaret law conversation pop up and disappear with the frequency of a McRib over the last couple of decades, my elation is a bit dulled by the déjà vu that brings me back to Bloomberg's opposition to the law and subsequent inability to kill it, and the whimper that was implicit in his lack of practical solutions for its replacement.
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He writes that "even losing her virginity occurs with a whimper" (never mind the fact that the scene was a refreshing representation of first-time sex that we are rarely shown on screen) and goes on to say that Gerwig still has a long way to go before she's as good as "Mike Leigh or a Louis Malle," who just happen to both be dudes.
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In the penultimate section, Oliver's obsessive musings on Elio at the party, a result of the conviction that his life stopped when he left Elio and that nothing truly worthwhile has happened since, beggared the belief of this reader, usually happy to inhabit a surreal, dreamlike mood but unsettled by a man who feels he's wasted the last 20 years of his life yet hasn't done a thing about it except whimper into the ether.
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In "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," Wallace Stevens proposed that one "must become an ignorant man again /And see the sun again with an ignorant eye /And see it clearly in the idea of it," but what is seemingly brought forth at the end of "Idiot Song" is not the lucidity of such radical ignorance but only the prospect of impairment, confusion, and babble, perhaps an Eliotic whimper at the end of time.
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To be even more blunt, if Democrats are going to eventually lose the right to filibuster judicial nominees I would rather go out in a blaze of glory, with every American fully aware of the stand we have taken and the courage of our convictions, then the whimper we are setting ourselves up for –because the way this is playing out should the nuclear option be invoked on Friday, it will be old news by Monday.
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