drum-beating

Even if I think that he was just trying to say that the Confederate Dollar was worthless after the war, there is a certain drum-beating when one uses the Southern colloquial “War of Northern Aggression.”

Think Progress » Rep. Paul Broun: The ramifications of health reform will be like ‘the Great War of Yankee Aggression.’ 2010

There may be less drum-beating talk of currency wars, but the underlying tensions remain.

At G-20, Talk Forestalls War Richard Barley 2010

Another multiethnic crew lost, more poor decision-making, an intolerant work culture, drum-beating pressure to launch.

Challenger Disaster: 25 Years Later, A Still Painful Wound AP 2011

Another multiethnic crew lost, more poor decision-making, an intolerant work culture, drum-beating pressure to launch.

Challenger: 25 Years Later, A Still Painful Wound AP 2011

And there are flamboyant couplings: within minutes of the opening, a flock of young women, veiled in black and white, have scampered on to the stage; the dark-clad maidens whip off their coverings to show satyr-sized penises with which they roger or whatever the equivalent is in Arabic the eager damsels in a hair-swishing, drum-beating, leg-waggling orgy.

One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – review 2011

Through persistent bad-mouthing, lies, exaggerations, overlooking positives, and drum-beating negatives, they manipulate their children to reject the other parent in the same way a politician paints a unfavorable picture to alienate voters from the opponent.

Richard Warshak: Stop Divorce Poison Richard Warshak 2010

Their constant drum-beating for violence and the dangerous lies they paint about the LGBT community make the atmosphere of violence very real and very dangerous for not only the gay community in Uganda, but their allies as well.

Waymon Hudson: New Questions Around Uganda Beheading, but Situation Remains the Same 2010

Ms Cheek's drum-beating mixes literary spin with estate agents 'patter: "Marlborough," she chirrups, "has robust connections with the UK's literary heritage – such greats as Siegfried Sassoon, Bruce Chatwin and William Golding – and an excellent range of venues with potential for both intimate and larger gatherings in historic, atmospheric buildings ..."

Goodbye New Labour – and farewell tedious ministers' memoirs 2010

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose relentless energy has been compared to the drum-beating bunny in battery advertisements, came to office in 2007 preaching the Anglo-Saxon-style gospel of less government and lower taxes.

The Engine That Could 2009

As I mentioned in my earlier post, much of the South Asian opinion in the American media forcefully lined up against what sounded like drum-beating to war in India.

Vamsee Juluri: Last Year's Truths: What We Got Wrong in the Aftermath of the Mumbai Attacks 2009