It is a disarming start to the memoir of a man usually caricatured as a bombastic tub-thumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blunt Diplomacy] Reference

"We ended up talking about our teenage sons," said Ms. Noonan, a Wall Street Journal columnist and G.O.P. tub-thumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reporters' Party Makes George W. Bigger than Ozzy] Reference

The point is this: while you do not realize. it, you are a better tub-thumper and welkin-ringer than Morgan is, when something -- such as just now -- really gets you going.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Lensman]

How thankful we ought to be that the historian, with his long sonorous words — flagitiosorum ac facinorosorum — did not make of our perfervid apothecary a mere tub-thumper of Corinthian prose!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henrik Ibsen] Reference

Matthews is a cool dude with years of experience as Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill's tub-thumper and a stint in the Carter White House who should be savvy about anything to do with politics and elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marvin Kitman: Playing the Fantasy Politics Game] Reference

Many on the right hope that hot-button issues like abortion, contraception, school prayer and creationism will keep people voting against their own pocketbooks and for the tub-thumper issues that the religious right feeds on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caryl Rivers: Backsliding on Roe] Reference

Yet in truth the mildness was so far genuine enough; for Henry Home came to the camp of revolution along a very different road and from very different origins from those of Jake, the common tub-thumper, and Elias, the cosmopolitan wire-puller.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

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Enough to buy every political tub-thumper in Washington and a Supreme Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

A tub-thumper of the old school, Gibson has previously stood as a representative of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Really, the only difference between a hoedown and a tub-thumper is an oom-pah-ing bass line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhapsody Music Stuff Place] Reference

"Well, you tub-thumper, you see that the gentlemen of England are more than a match for pestilent pennyweight rebels.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference

"Always a-preaching, the old tub-thumper," I heard William say to himself; but he made no further reference to the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wrong Paradise] Reference

Finest moment: "10: 03," a real tub-thumper, bolstered by arrangement contributions from Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Chronicle] Reference

The tub-thumper however is the more easily reached by the civil authority, especially when his discourses raise a tumult among the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Philosophy] Reference

As Capello feels well capable of handling all the peripheral issues surrounding his team, it turned out he wanted a tub-thumper in the Terry Butcher mould.    From Wordnik.com.  [icBirmingham] Reference

Moore's latest documentary drew tumultuous applause at the Venice film festival, suggesting that the veteran tub-thumper has lost none of his power to whip up a response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference

In fact every tub-thumper went about preaching and ruining servant girls, and for this we paid over twenty millions a year -- more than the interest on the whole National Debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference

The dedication he still inspires is affirmation of Peters' reinvention from rabble-rousing tub-thumper with the first incarnation of the trailblazing '80s Alarm, through a '90s makeover as a solo artist to a hugely successful internet regenesis via a thriving website with a reborn Alarm line-up in the noughties.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

They wrote too often as the tub-thumper speaks, without much self-criticism and with a too fervent desire to be heard immediately and at all costs. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857] Reference

The Guardian: Michael Moore’s latest documentary drew tumultuous applause at the Venice film festival today, suggesting that the veteran tub-thumper has lost none of his power to whip up a response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buzz: Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story [Venice Film Festival] | /Film] Reference

Terry is still the tub-thumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Cup 2010: John Terry finds out that England is not like Chelsea] Reference

He'sh a rare tub-thumper!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference

Huckabee-- Tub as in tub-thumper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The candidates... in a word.] Reference