But the way my wife and I heard the speech sure had the whisper of history about it.
He knew technology, but could also sense the whisper of the markets and had a unique appreciation for art.
You don't get the usual rumbling of an idling engine, just the whisper-quiet whirl of the e-tron's motor (Audi is currently engineering an "e-tron sound" so that outsiders will be able to hear the car) and wind whizzing by.
For African Americans and a lot of Southern whites who are accustomed to a certain style of preaching, the thundering voice that drops to a whisper, the weaving of social issues with the theological, is common.
After the close on April 26, Starbucks is expected to post a profit of 39 cents per share, though the whisper number projects earnings of 41 cents per share.
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Think about it in the context of the age-old game of Telephone where you whisper a sentence around the table until it is distorted into something indistinguishable.
Given this data, the current whisper number of 91 cents per share is well within reach.
The craft is all but silent, the whir of its battery-powered thrusters a whisper compared with, say, the noise of a scuba regulator.
The upshifts whisper, barely detectable in the midst of a very refined full-throttle commotion.
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The men whisper, in a kind of awe, the exact departure times, the ports of call - Brindisi, Venice - the transit times, the names of the ships.
Art Rooney, George Halas and Vince Lombardi peer down and whisper in the ears of Mike Tomlin, Lovie Smith and Mike McCarthy.
They connected, person-to-person, with the intimacy of a whisper in an ear.
These improvements have put him within a whisper of the NBA's most efficient scorer, Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant (1.58 points per shot), whom Stoudemire and the Knicks face Thursday in New York.
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He is also the editor in charge of the market-beating Zacks Whisper Trader Service.
We'll admit to being a little blown away when Microsoft launched the Surface -- it was an impressively polished tablet that we had heard barely a whisper of leading up to the mysterious launch event.
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On September 6th Amazon will stage an event that may launch a revamped Kindle or may, some whisper, see the unveiling of an Amazon phone.
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To bring the apps to Egypt, Whisper Systems had to redesign parts of its VoIP protocol and negotiate the bureaucracy of U.S. export restrictions on encryption.
Some whisper numbers are in the range of 43 to 45 million.
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Because of that dead butterfly history changed, in a whisper or a roar, all down the aeons of time.
The muted reaction of European markets in recent sessions is evidence that the whisper numbers are benign and unfortunately, that leaves the potential for downside pressure should those tests unexpectedly reveal serious problems.
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Analysts are expecting the natural gas specialist to post a quarterly profit of 59 cents per share, with the whisper number arriving 4 cents higher at 63 cents per share.
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And then a whisper of wind coming off the river dislodged the ash.
There is the sociology section, the science section, old sheet music and menus, and you can go to the periodicals room anytime and read old issues of the New Statesman. (And you can whisper loudly to a friend in the next carrel to get the hockey scores.) To see that that is so is at least to drain some of the melodrama from the subject.
The world equity market has become addicted to government stimulus programs and bailouts when even a whisper of a QE3 type program or a ECB, IMF or the latest soon to be debacle, THE EUROPEAN FINANCIAL STABILITY FACILITY, is discussed in the G20 as a way to backstop failing European banks.
The whisper number rests a penny higher at earnings of 20 cents per share.
Republican Committee lawyers would whisper future lines of questioning into the ears of Republican Senators, but when those Senators got their turn, they kept falling down rabbit holes.
Next month, amid great fanfare, the National Museum of American Jewish History opens its doors on Independence Mall, a whisper away from the Liberty Bell.
I'm thinking particularly of members of the opposite sex who work (whisper it) in finance.
As the convocation begins, a group of freshman girls whisper among themselves, wondering if his name will come up.
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