drumbeat

The seemingly unstoppable drumbeat of preventable child gun deaths drives the Olivers.

Taken together, it's the kind of drumbeat of attention that has helped the story break into the larger public's awareness.

On a recent Sunday at Santo Domingo de Guzmán Roman Catholic Church in the capital’s Baruta district, Father Leonardo Marius urged parishioners to ignore the drumbeat of war pounding the airwaves and internet.

Fine, we’ll need a few of those, especially as the awards drumbeat gets deafening.

But the general negative vibe, not helped by what was a rather downbeat drumbeat from government last year, does appear to have held consumers back.