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.
And then a whisper of wind coming off the river dislodged the ash.
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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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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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.
Given this data, the current whisper number of 91 cents per share is well within reach.
European diplomats whisper that of course it is inconceivable that any country would ever really be subjected to the sort of fines laid out in the stability pact.
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.
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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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.
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.
In the wonkocracy, your human being is little more than a wisp of poetry, something that might be nice to whisper about tipsily over a plate of sea urchin foam, but something no professional would try to make room for in their work on policy.
"The signals that were received were like a whisper among a lot of static, " NASA's Cook said last week.
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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.
The craft is all but silent, the whir of its battery-powered thrusters a whisper compared with, say, the noise of a scuba regulator.
Because of that dead butterfly history changed, in a whisper or a roar, all down the aeons of time.
As the convocation begins, a group of freshman girls whisper among themselves, wondering if his name will come up.
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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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.
Some whisper numbers are in the range of 43 to 45 million.
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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.
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.
The upshifts whisper, barely detectable in the midst of a very refined full-throttle commotion.
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In my analysis whisper numbers crept higher, not because of fundamentals but because investors who move money from Apple (AAPL) into Google were justifying their move and analysts had to justify their recent upgrades.
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However, there are those of us who will say aloud what many development practitioners will whisper when no one is around to overhear them: the private sector is the only truly sustainable source of economic growth.
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This narrative, at times only a whisper or suggestion, weaves throughout my bodies of work.
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