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  • As the war looms closer warmongering propagandists will step up their flag-waving jingoism and attacks on so called ‘traitors’.
  • I rode into the city by subway and saw the crowds of badge-sporting, flag-waving kids become denser, packing buses, streetcars, and roads closed for streaming parades of pilgrims on foot.
  • It was so uplifting, almost, you know, flag-waving patriotic.
  • I mean what's footie come to when a bloke can't make a brilliant save without some flag-waving jessie getting all official.
  • It is not jingoism or knee-jerk flag-waving; it's real and true and good.
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  • So now we're back to petty tub-thumping and infantile flag-waving - business as usual!
  • These are the issues the hosts are dealing with, prompted by a surge of flag-waving patriotism the extent of which has surprised many. Times, Sunday Times
  • Crucially, however, it is not a rose-tinted look at proceedings and isn't flag-waving in the slightest, lending extra credibility to the whole affair - much like his decision to shoot in black and white.
  • As the war looms closer warmongering propagandists will step up their flag-waving jingoism and attacks on so called ‘traitors’.
  • In a time of fierce ideological commitment and flag-waving, Benjamin was never an ideologue.
  • a seething flag-waving crowd filled the streets
  • Instead they died in the line of duty and subsequently received posthumous citizenship amidst much fanfare and flag-waving.
  • Flag-waving, jingoism and professional sports go hand in hand.
  • Support the men and women in uniform is not just words and flag-waving and pride when some enemy target is destroyed. Franken's first goal: Dogs for vets
  • Some people want to make it a day of flag-waving and patriotism.
  • I even had to push aside a few nurses and their flag-waving kiddies because the protest moved too slowly and the market was nearly closing.
  • There will be marching bands and plenty of flag-waving.
  • This is not a significant corner of the repertoire nor one that needs regular flag-waving. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was some carefully choreographed flag-waving as the President drove by.
  • Several hundred flag-waving administration officials cheered as the president's Marine One helicopter landed on the White House lawn.
  • Can anyone doubt that the filth they spout will now carry more weight, that the flag-waving crowds are now more likely to vote MHP?
  • I am not some flag-waving patriot cheering on every move our troops make.
  • Suffice to say, he's the same flag-waving Texas hick he's ever been.
  • The Olympic torch was paraded through the streets of Pyongyang to flag-waving masses on Monday with North Korea promising its main benefactor China an "astonishing" show certain to be free of protest.
  • From the barriers that half an hour earlier had held back flag-waving crowds, overflowing bags of rubbish waved in the breeze. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not out of patriotism or anything even remotely flag-waving.
  • Instead, Preminger allows the entire debate to be entirely driven by various forms of nonsense: the ONLY things we see Cooley's flag-waving as contrasted to Pidgeon's bullshit facade of polite talk as contrasted to Leffingwell's cornpone babble as contrasted to Van Ackerman attempting to eat the table. A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury
  • It's exactly this kind of divisible flag-waving, "patriotic" rhetoric that has gotten us in the mess we're in the first place, isn't it? Val Strange: The Fraternity of John McCain
  • WHISTLER (AP) A flag-waving Ole Einar Bjoerndalen anchored Norway to a resounding victory in the men's biathlon relay, the sixth gold medal for the most decorated biathlete in history. Bjoerndalen leads Norway to biathlon relay gold
  • They were among the massive crowd that poured out onto Paris 'most famous avenue for the finish — Norwegians in Viking helmets, flag-waving Britons and an American in a stars-and-stripes top hat among them. Part Deux: Contador cruises to second Tour de France title
  • Instead they died in the line of duty and subsequently received posthumous citizenship amidst much fanfare and flag-waving.
  • No matter what flag-waving, hot blooded xenophobic ‘patriots’ will tell you, one person alone will never be able to change history.
  • But the ceremonies are likely to be resisted by some young Britons, who are naturally wary of what they regard as flag-waving patriotism.
  • Joy's an unabashed, flag-waving patriot who joined the Air Force to serve his country.
  • This president is despised and ridiculed even in the face of flag-waving calls for national unity.
  • PROUD Army heroes are given a massive welcome by flag-waving crowds as they parade through the streets of a town yesterday. The Sun
  • Flag-waving is but a quadrennial affair, when the German soccer team marches off to the World Cup. Those Reassuringly Dull Germans
  • Such knee-jerk flag-waving is anathema to Banville, a writer who despises nationalism in all forms.
  • The anniversary of the dawning of freedom for the subcontinent is not all about flag-waving.
  • He has bought and sold his way to the top table through turning solid products into flag-waving brands with a mixture of luck, timing and innovation.
  • Now, by stealth and with no political flag-waving, this may be the end of the rich queue-jumping over the poor.
  • When an American-flag-waving delegation of their Alexandria hosts, Tenants and Workers United, briefly marches in a lane of traffic, blocking cars, the trekkers stick law-abidingly to the sidewalk. Trail of Dream students walk 1,500 miles to bring immigration message to Washington
  • But leftists made what progress they did by demanding that the nation live up to its stated principles, rather than dismissing them as fatally compromised by the racism of the founders or the abusiveness of flag-waving vigilantes.
  • I did not intend to sound like a flag-waving jingoist, and I certainly regret it if I did.
  • Drury went down under Muirhead's tackle from behind and after some frantic flag-waving from the linesman, the referee gave the penalty.
  • The almost desperate character of the effort to silence or drown out antiwar protests suggests that something more than mindless flag-waving is going on here.
  • These emblems of today's cult of passive suffering are at the opposite end of the emotional spectrum from traditional patriotic flag-waving.
  • The visible response was flag-waving, but I don't know how many people quietly questioned what was going on.
  • It should not be confused, as it so often is, with jingoism, which is a blind, flag-waving nationalism that refuses to acknowledge any failings whatsoever of our society. The Wright Stuff and Senator Obama
  • It will be interesting to see how all the flag-waving Republican "patriots" and sofa samurais will react when asked to pay for the wars they so passionately support -- provided they are without apparent cost. Eric Margolis: Attention All Republican Flag-Wavers -- If You Want Wars Abroad, Pay for Them
  • With politics, there just happens to be [an inordinate amount] of flag-waving yahoos.
  • Fox News has become America's top-rated cable network thanks to its gung-ho reporting and flag-waving fervour. Keith Olbermann abruptly dropped by NBC | Richard Adams
  • It's exactly this kind of divisible flag-waving, quote-on-quote "patriotic" rhetoric that has gotten us in the mess we're in the first place, isn't it? The Fraternization of John McCain
  • What about enforcing patriotism by tying school funding to flag-waving?
  • Now it's just stamping our feet and flag-waving, caracole and saunter until the action starts---a little later than any of us expected. AMERICAN GODS
  • Now it's just stamping our feet and flag-waving, caracole and saunter until the action starts---a little later than any of us expected. AMERICAN GODS
  • And, no doubt, she would find flag-waving during a Democrat Administration perfectly acceptable.
  • Finally, bringing up the rear, was a troupe of majorettes - flag-waving, high-stepping, brass-buttoned beauties with short skirts and kinky boots.
  • It is not jingoism or knee-jerk flag-waving; it's real and true and good.
  • (Bog) * Habs will "set the tone" by placing the flag-waving kid somewhere he can't get "snowed" by Alex Ovechkin, which probably accomplishes nothing except disappoint a kid who wants to stand near Alex Ovechkin. Alexander Semin and the empty net

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