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whimper

wim per

  • n  a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way
  • v  cry weakly or softly

  • Score that as follows: one imploding economy, one deteriorating war in an impossible region and two versions of Armageddon the bang of loose nukes and the whimper of .
  • The elder Castro's exit barely registered in those cities; a half-century after he arrived on the world stage with a bang, Fidel left with a whimper.
  • People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious .
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  • Judge Leonie Brinkema in New York Times
    Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, who sentenced Mr. Moussaoui, told him: "You came here to be a martyr and to die in a great big bang of glory, but to paraphrase the poet TS Eliot, instead, you will die with a whimper. The rest of your life you will spend...

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