But watching all the stabbings, murders, guns and violence that can be seen every night on prime time television elicits not even a whimper. |
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He let out a small whimper but stood his ground, hands clenched into shaking fists. |
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Only a tiny whimper from pain as she fallen on her rump, the wood pinching her bare flesh. |
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Darcy gave a little whimper, and then Austin distinctly heard the sound of something bumping against the tile. |
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When she hears a baby's soft whimper, Daphne claps a hand over her mouth to stifle a gasp of surprise. |
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They shrugged after the second Test was lost by a whimper, then spoke of relief when defeat was staved off in the third. |
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She hated watching us fight, but never took sides and could only muster up a whimper for a truce. |
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Contrary to every expectation, its advent has been greeted with more of a bang than a whimper. |
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They have to know they were lucky to get out of Miami with Kerry having scored a whimper rather than a bang. |
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This insight goes a long way to explain why the war ended as it did, with a whimper rather than a bang. |
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It's sad to see such a provocative thinker go out with a whimper instead of a bang. |
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The love affair between business and Labour is ending with a whimper, not a bang. |
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This conclusion comes with a bang, not a whimper and is the only possible finale for such a sizzling firework display of a book. |
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No impressive display of pyrotechnics, the inertial dampening system gave up the ghost with a whimper. |
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Maybe the guy who predicted that the world will end with a whimper instead of a bang was right. |
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It seems unfair that a man of such vitality, intelligence, and formidable personality ended his public career with more of a whimper than a bang. |
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While has been completely subsumed by the with a whimper not a bang bowing out of Belle de Jour. |
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It could make such a difference to your day when you started with a bang, not a whimper! |
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This is like the way a mother attends to her newborn's tiniest whimper but as the years roll on this level of attention diminishes. |
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If the parties don't reconcile, the divorce is actually just the whimper at the very end. |
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Watch for your kid's signs that a tantrum is on its way: tension, acting antsy, and a whimper. |
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Four years ago the sides met at the Sydney Olympics but their 1-1 draw helped neither as both exited the tournament with a whimper. |
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This quick millennial tour ends with more of a whimper than a bang, with Abraham Lincoln and John Paul II being chosen to represent the last two centuries. |
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In the past four years, untold numbers of companies have gone bust in the second half, and the new year has started with something more like a whimper than a bang. |
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We then rewind through the previous stories, expecting everything to come together with a bang, but instead seeing each tale peter out in a whimper. |
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My head began to throb violently, making me want to whimper in pain. |
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Afraid for the first time of the darkness, he began to whimper in fear. |
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Announcing his retirement at this week's Christmas concert at Selby Abbey, he went out not with a whimper but a bang, and a departing salvo aimed at New Labour. |
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Bonfire night celebrations in Middleton, near Pickering, may go off with a whimper rather than a bang this year after the village bonfire party was cancelled. |
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They ended four hours and a couple hundred miles away in Virginia, succumbing to the normal internal tensions and apathy, the all-too-common whimper instead of a bang. |
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They took that gob of spit in the face with a just a whiny little whimper. |
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As he plays, they mew and whimper in a painful ecstasy or, as they themselves put it, they are sent. |
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In Kyushu, where the yakuza are deeply rooted, they are not leaving with a whimper, they are leaving with a bang. |
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The wolf just sat there and tilted its head with an inquisitive whimper. |
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It quickly backed away giving a noise that sounded a bit like a whimper. |
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This is the way the World Economic Forum ends every year, not with a bang, but a whimper. |
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The girl began to whimper again, and looked on the verge of tears. |
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The others all learned to sleep just fine, but I did have to spend a year or so dashing in at the first whimper. |
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In conclusion, we are dismantling Canada as we know it and it is being done without a whimper. |
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Those who enjoy the view from the top of a mountain do not whimper about the scratches they suffered on the way up. |
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I am the divine hope that calls and consoles those who cry, I am sweet Jesus who gently caresses they who whimper in pain and in restitution. |
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Nevertheless, it finished the year with a whimper, not a bang. |
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How else can you explain that in a democracy, as many as a 1000 people can die and there is neither a whimper nor a squeal? |
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That is why I congratulate Parliament, which is right to say that the whole process cannot simply end in a whimper. |
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His whiny whimper and open-mouthed silent scream are priceless. |
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Your puppy loves your companionship, so it shouldn't surprise you to hear him whimper when you leave him home alone. |
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Will the roar of creation in the making be reduced to a tame whimper? |
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As ends of eras go, he recalls, it was mostly whimper and not much bang. |
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In Mr Bergman's films, characters would often be silent, or scenes would unroll with no sound but the whimper of wind, the drip of water or, especially, the tick and chime of watches and clocks. |
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In the times of which I speak, you had no reason to whimper and had nothing to lament, you felt the glory in yourselves, for in your perfect life, you were the symbol of that existence. |
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The logic of Carswell – and others – is that if a party wins a general election, then the whole population must submit and accept their legislative programme without so much as a whimper. |
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That she understood suffering became clear when, in a childish accident at the age of three, she endured the pain of surgery without a whimper and commented that Jesus had suffered much more. |
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First and foremost: he may cry and whimper when you leave-even act out. |
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It would have been logical for NATO to die too, without a whimper, if it had been a US imposition on Western Europeans, obliged to accept it in the face of the Soviet military and political threat. |
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As she said, the divorce at the end is a whimper. |
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Leclere was bent on the coming of the day when Batard should wilt in spirit and cringe and whimper at his feet. |
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When she begins to express concern,give out a whimper and slump into your spag bol. |
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Democratic capitalism had won the Cold War not with a bang, but a whimper. |
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Without a bang or a whimper, the Grand Bargain died this week. |
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The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room. |
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She moved her furniture across without a whimper or a hint of worry. I, on the other hand, hired a removalist just to take my bed from one bedroom to the other. |
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But he made no whimper. Nor did he wince or cringe to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth. |
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