tub-thumping

Example Sentences

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That’s also the name of the real-life West Belfast outfit whose origin story — juiced for maximum political energy and comedic verve by writer-director Rich Peppiatt — makes for a tub-thumping, fist-pumping good time.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2024

The UK's so-called "Golden Era" with China - a tub-thumping endorsement of the trade and engagement mantra - was launched during Mr Xi's first term and continued into his second.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2022

Certainly, there’s a long tradition of tub-thumping between these schools — and it’s not even the first time that the “academic prowess” of Oregon was brought into question by the Huskies’ side.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2021

Anand Menon, a professor of European politics at King’s College London, anticipated that there would be plenty of Brexit tub-thumping to come.

From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2020

Here was no tub-thumping soothsayer, but an inspired zealot.

From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John