Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sound produced by beating a drum.
- noun Vehement, persistent advocacy of a cause.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sound of a drum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
beating of adrum . - noun The
sound of a beating drum. - noun figuratively
Forceful support of acause .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause
- noun (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown
- noun the sound made by beating a drum
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Examples
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Spirituality has always been a motivating connector with Boomer population, and the steady drumbeat is only growing louder in our recessionary times.
Connecting with the Boomer Heart and Soul (The Boomer Blog) 2008
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This is a constant drumbeat from the Republican Left: "Craswell was extreme because we say she was extreme."
Sound Politics: Fallout of the McGavick DUI Story is More Evidence Civility Theme Works 2006
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Today with the battle lines between the red and blue states, the Christians and versus the secular, there is this constant drumbeat from the right wing that "the liberals hate us and we welcome their hatred because it energizes us."
April 2005 2005
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But from where my ears reside, the only constant racist drumbeat is UVA endorsed white hate from the mouth of M. Rick Turner.
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This is a strategic narrative - part of a long-term drumbeat designed to bring identity "Christians" into the Republican Party.
Long-Term Strategic Narrative: Liberals Hate Christians 2007
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This is a strategic narrative - part of a long-term drumbeat designed to bring identity
Seeing the Forest 2009
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This is a strategic narrative - part of a long-term drumbeat designed to bring identity
Seeing the Forest 2009
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It all started as a drumbeat from the wingnuts as part of their “you can’t trust the elitists” compaign.
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I’m glad to see you exhorting people to hew a line of polite discourse; my continual drumbeat is that despite people’s radically different concepts of proper governance, the role of the media, what constitutes reality, and the definitions of a whole host of terms, there’s no excuse for not being polite to one another.
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There’s this convenient thing called “memory” — we clearly remember the drumbeat from the left and the press to enact everything the 9/11 commission demanded.
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