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Definition of tub-thumping in English: tub-thumpingadjective derogatory, informal attributive Expressing opinions in a loud or aggressive manner. 慷慨激昂的 一场慷慨激昂的演讲。 Example sentencesExamples - Yet the novel is not a tub-thumping tract but rich in suggestion, a record of how people felt and behaved.
- While the country's fortunes looked good, he wrote his share of tub-thumping patriotic works.
- 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.
- He was in tub-thumping mode this week as the hours ticked down to his side's Premiership opener against Aston Villa.
- Ironically, however, he says tub-thumping populism is exactly what isn't needed.
- By turns a tub-thumping populist and an exponent of radical reform, he can veer from policy measures which are crudely authoritarian to others which seem positively progressive.
- So much self-serving tub-thumping rubbish has been talked about ‘Moral Re-Armament’ that the phrase is disreputable.
- Anyway, he is hardly a part of the tub-thumping religious zealots on the right.
- The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
- We should avoid the overblown statements and tub-thumping oratory.
- 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.
- 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.
- Despite a tub-thumping speech at conference he has proved himself lazy and self-regarding in the race so far.
- It's more about continuing improvement, but obviously the end goal has to be to win the World Cup - without making any tub-thumping promises.
- The platform at the front of the stage rises up like a pulpit, as Neil suddenly comes on like a crazed tub-thumping preacher man, delivering a bizarre sermon which starts off tongue-in-cheek, and ends up largely sincere.
- In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
- So now we're back to petty tub-thumping and infantile flag-waving - business as usual!
noun mass nounderogatory, informal The expression of opinions in a loud or aggressive way. 慷慨激昂的演讲 where I had expected bluster and tub-thumping, I got sweetly understated humour Example sentencesExamples - After the initial tub-thumping, the author settles down to offer a sensibly inclusive, broad-church definition of jazz.
- He certainly does not engage in supremacist tub-thumping, because this would rip away the stuff of the world that makes his perspective complete, while keeping his feet on the ground.
- First World War remembrance was never that tub-thumping in the first place.
- In reality, however, they are merely endorsing the dopey brand of entertainment industry tub-thumping that he has done so much to encourage.
- But the film was far more than a piece of political tub-thumping.
- 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.
- But it's not just populist tabloid tub-thumping.
- 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.
- Where I had expected bluster and tub-thumping, I got sweetly understated humour.
- All this tub-thumping will have been useful if it persuades people that Scotland are worth playing for again.
- While clearly Teresa did what was necessary - largely to save her own neck - and it is also an interesting story, there is no need and even less justification to turn those events into feminist tub-thumping.
- There was none of the tub-thumping of his predecessor at last night's fans' forum.
- His challenge is to prove that the disruptive, tub-thumping and sometimes selfish approach will not be at the expense of long-term stability.
- The school brought in yet another new coach this year and out came the same old tub-thumping.
- As an account of a dazzling wartime exploit, the apotheosis of boffinry, the film isn't above a certain amount of tub-thumping, but the director also knows that there are moments when it's the silent tub that makes the most noise.…
Derivativesnounˈtʌbθʌmpə derogatory, informal And for the tub-thumpers I can only say ‘Wake up and start living in the real world.’ Example sentencesExamples - And it's true that tub-thumpers looking for explicit invectives against the former Mayor will want to take their ire elsewhere.
- And just because you don't see 45 million tub-thumpers doesn't mean that we don't have them.
- But others berate him as an inflexible tub-thumper who harangues his charges and treats adults like children.
- Not every male columnist is a fire-breather, an instant expert, a tub-thumper, an obnox.
Definition of tub-thumping in US English: tub-thumpingadjectiveˈtəb ˌθəmpɪŋˈtəb ˌTHəmpiNG derogatory, informal attributive Expressing opinions in a loud and violent or dramatic manner. 慷慨激昂的 一场慷慨激昂的演讲。 Example sentencesExamples - Anyway, he is hardly a part of the tub-thumping religious zealots on the right.
- So much self-serving tub-thumping rubbish has been talked about ‘Moral Re-Armament’ that the phrase is disreputable.
- 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.
- The jibes that he was nothing more than a gaffe-prone, tub-thumping populist hurt because they were perilously close to the truth.
- In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
- 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.
- Yet the novel is not a tub-thumping tract but rich in suggestion, a record of how people felt and behaved.
- Ironically, however, he says tub-thumping populism is exactly what isn't needed.
- By turns a tub-thumping populist and an exponent of radical reform, he can veer from policy measures which are crudely authoritarian to others which seem positively progressive.
- He was in tub-thumping mode this week as the hours ticked down to his side's Premiership opener against Aston Villa.
- So now we're back to petty tub-thumping and infantile flag-waving - business as usual!
- 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.
- While the country's fortunes looked good, he wrote his share of tub-thumping patriotic works.
- It's more about continuing improvement, but obviously the end goal has to be to win the World Cup - without making any tub-thumping promises.
- The platform at the front of the stage rises up like a pulpit, as Neil suddenly comes on like a crazed tub-thumping preacher man, delivering a bizarre sermon which starts off tongue-in-cheek, and ends up largely sincere.
- We should avoid the overblown statements and tub-thumping oratory.
- Despite a tub-thumping speech at conference he has proved himself lazy and self-regarding in the race so far.
nounˈtəb ˌθəmpɪŋˈtəb ˌTHəmpiNG derogatory, informal The expression of opinions in a loud or dramatic way. 慷慨激昂的 Example sentencesExamples - His challenge is to prove that the disruptive, tub-thumping and sometimes selfish approach will not be at the expense of long-term stability.
- 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.
- As an account of a dazzling wartime exploit, the apotheosis of boffinry, the film isn't above a certain amount of tub-thumping, but the director also knows that there are moments when it's the silent tub that makes the most noise.…
- After the initial tub-thumping, the author settles down to offer a sensibly inclusive, broad-church definition of jazz.
- But the film was far more than a piece of political tub-thumping.
- Where I had expected bluster and tub-thumping, I got sweetly understated humour.
- But it's not just populist tabloid tub-thumping.
- The school brought in yet another new coach this year and out came the same old tub-thumping.
- While clearly Teresa did what was necessary - largely to save her own neck - and it is also an interesting story, there is no need and even less justification to turn those events into feminist tub-thumping.
- First World War remembrance was never that tub-thumping in the first place.
- In reality, however, they are merely endorsing the dopey brand of entertainment industry tub-thumping that he has done so much to encourage.
- 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.
- All this tub-thumping will have been useful if it persuades people that Scotland are worth playing for again.
- There was none of the tub-thumping of his predecessor at last night's fans' forum.
- He certainly does not engage in supremacist tub-thumping, because this would rip away the stuff of the world that makes his perspective complete, while keeping his feet on the ground.
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