Gena Showalter

The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.

American Author

John McDonnell

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.

British Politician

Eskinder Nega

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Ethiopian Journalist

Lauren Myracle

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Julia Child

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

American Chef

Elliott Abrams

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

American Lawyer

Aiden English

So I'll be honest, after the whole Rusev Day thing ended with more of a whimper than a bang, it was a little disheartening.

American Wrestler

Shirley Chisholm

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

American Politician

T. S. Eliot

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

American Poet

Steve Bruce

What people resent, in sport, is if you go out with a whimper.

English Manager

Use 'whimper' to describe someone trying to cry silently, not loudly sobbing.

Quiet Crying

'Whimper' isn't usually associated with happiness, despite the collocation 'whimper with joy'.

Not for Happiness

'Whimper' is often used to express physical or emotional pain in a subdued manner.

Context of Pain

The noun form of 'whimper' implies the sound is barely audible, showing restraint or weakness.

Subtle Sound

The noun form often suggests someone is in discomfort but trying not to show it.

Express Discomfort

When used as a verb, 'whimper' can suggest the complaint is not taken seriously.

Weak Complaint

Using 'whimper' as a verb can imply the speaker looks down on the subject.

Negative Connotation

A 'whimper' as a noun can be more about the irritating quality of a complaint than its volume.

Annoying Sound

'Whimper' indicates a protest that lacks force or conviction, often ineffective.

Not a Strong Protest

 it here Vargas crying and whimpering him Michelle had landed right beside him his head was at my shoulder when I put this tourniquet around him and I could see his like shredded I said I knew I couldn't cope with that

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 where to go, how fast to get there. If you haven't been cursed out by my mother, you haven't lived. The person would be on the floor, writhing in utter decay and decomposition, whimpering in a pool of racial shame.

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 Her mouth fell into my mouth like a summer snow, like a 5th season, like a fresh Eden, like Eden when Eve made God whimper with the liquid tilt of her hips— her kiss hurt like that—

Whimper

Quiet Crying

Not for Happiness

Context of Pain

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