| All this tub-thumping will have been useful if it persuades people that Scotland are worth playing for again. |
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| It will be hard for him to win, but already he has created such a stir that the party's expected tub-thumping victory is now in doubt. |
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| Yet the novel is not a tub-thumping tract but rich in suggestion, a record of how people felt and behaved. |
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| Despite a tub-thumping speech at conference he has proved himself lazy and self-regarding in the race so far. |
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| After the initial tub-thumping, the author settles down to offer a sensibly inclusive, broad-church definition of jazz. |
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| First World War remembrance was never that tub-thumping in the first place. |
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| In reality, however, they are merely endorsing the dopey brand of entertainment industry tub-thumping that he has done so much to encourage. |
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| The school brought in yet another new coach this year and out came the same old tub-thumping. |
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| His challenge is to prove that the disruptive, tub-thumping and sometimes selfish approach will not be at the expense of long-term stability. |
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| Where I had expected bluster and tub-thumping, I got sweetly understated humour. |
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| While the country's fortunes looked good, he wrote his share of tub-thumping patriotic works. |
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| There was none of the tub-thumping of his predecessor at last night's fans' forum. |
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| He was in tub-thumping mode this week as the hours ticked down to his side's Premiership opener against Aston Villa. |
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| Ironically, however, he says tub-thumping populism is exactly what isn't needed. |
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| Anyway, he is hardly a part of the tub-thumping religious zealots on the right. |
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| The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth. |
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| We should avoid the overblown statements and tub-thumping oratory. |
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| Rather than an agent of change, he is sounding more like his tub-thumping predecessors. |
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| But this year there was furrowed-brow introspection mixed with the tub-thumping. |
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| But Ruth didn't deal with politics in a tub-thumping, special pleading sort of way. |
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| The company had intended the launch to be the usual raucous, overblown tub-thumping spectacle, but subsequent to last week's events a far more sober event will be appropriate. |
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| Only the delicately comic exchanges between Nanny and Garnett rise above this tub-thumping. |
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| He is likely to be more upbeat, less highbrow, but nonetheless less tub-thumping than most home affairs spokesmen when he speaks to delegates at 3pm today. |
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| But the film was far more than a piece of political tub-thumping. |
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| But there was no tub-thumping, finger-wagging or speechifying, no feeling of electricity or sense that this was an important opportunity, theirs for the taking. |
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| What's more, the prospect of one of the most important chunks of Britain's transport infrastructure being sold soon riled a good deal of nationalistic tub-thumping. |
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| First we popped in on a roly-poly Alsatian farm wife and watched her brewing outrageously smelly Munster cheese to the accompaniment of tub-thumping Bavarian music. |
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| His political songs are far from tub-thumping. |
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| His writings combine mandarin erudition and populist tub-thumping. |
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| The chancellor was also slow on the uptake with his applause for Blair's tub-thumping rhetoric. |
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| But who exactly is this tub-thumping number cruncher? |
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| It was a stomping, attention-grabbing, tub-thumping, speechifying Port full not just of violets and liquorice and prunes, but also of grainy texture and vitality. |
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