And half the news seems to be back-slapping cross-linking. From Wordnik.com. [$5,000 Search Marketing Scholarship Contest] Reference
• Too much back-slapping in the literary world, they say. From Wordnik.com. [Diary] Reference
Gotta love that back-slapping, old boys club that is the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Reid Spokesman: He Will Not Try To Seat Franken Tomorrow] Reference
That sort of cheery back-slapping would be entirely out of place. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
A firm handshake from "The Terminator," and some mutual back-slapping. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2007] Reference
Blair joined in back-slapping, but was distracted by European concerns. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
For the back-slapping politician, back surgery can pose some additional risks. From Wordnik.com. [Ehrlich back on trail after back and neck surgery] Reference
Westminster's village green was awash with buddies, back-slapping and in-jokes. From Wordnik.com. [What happened to the Big Society? It was killed by proximity to power] Reference
The same is true with John Deere, dairy farmers and other back-slapping boys from back home. From Wordnik.com. [The Cash Committee: How Wall Street Wins On The Hill] Reference
Blue Clancy looked fine, worked well, threw Malcolm and Ramsey into back-slapping ecstasies. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Money]
China relations of late are more of the make-nice variety -- handshaking and back-slapping. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2007] Reference
He did savor the moment, the glad-handing and back-slapping some of his troops and commanders. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2003] Reference
I don't think I've ever watched an awards show, can't stand the whole inbred back-slapping thing. From Wordnik.com. [I'd like to thank my publicist] Reference
Byrd didn't have the back-slapping bonhomie that sped the rise of most of the body's famed members. From Wordnik.com. [The post-Byrd Senate] Reference
An'desha ignored it, vaulting across benches to join Karal in a back-slapping indulgence of relief. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Rising]
CROWLEY: Burns is a gaffe-prone, boisterous, back-slapping politician who will not be out-Montanaed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2006] Reference
His father, the area's back-slapping LDP parliamentarian, sent his fifth son to Tokyo to be educated. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel With A Cause] Reference
In the happy back-slapping tumult of the moment the ominous little shaft passed unnoticed or was ignored. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
Turning 12 golf soloists into a hugging, back-slapping team is the challenge for every Ryder Cup captain. From Wordnik.com. [Ryder Cup: A Most Un-Golflike Golf Tournament] Reference
Again, these people may or may not be nice, or humorous or folksly or back-slapping - that's not the point. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Lieberman Represent? Not You] Reference
TODD (voice-over): In a tiny back alley in Philly's working - class suburbs, classic political back-slapping. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2008] Reference
There ensued more whooping, back-slapping and general subsumation of all into one single unified consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Be My Enemy]
There was a lot of hand-shaking and back-slapping; Hadfield was hidden by the crowd that had gathered round him. From Wordnik.com. [The Sands of Mars]
His victory turned New Yorkers into warm, back-slapping and smiling Mid-Westerners still days after the election. From Wordnik.com. [Andrea Chalupa: 2008: The Year of Audacity] Reference
Maybe Dr. Watson has attended too many back-slapping Harvard dinner parties with people who have steered him wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Agin: How Not to End a Career: The Racism of James D. Watson] Reference
Many of them come from the same towns and cities, like Jerusalem, and share a certain back-slapping Levantine levity. From Wordnik.com. [Horseplay And High Stakes] Reference
After some more laughing and back-slapping, Mamadou went into his guard house and came back with a ragged brown bill. From Wordnik.com. [When I Became a White Girl] Reference
Save with Paul Riesling, mechanical friendships — back-slapping and jocular, never daring to essay the test of quietness. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
AND news segments abounded on our back-slapping accomplishment of pronouncing our friendly ally's nation the same way they did. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Syben Haidl: You Say "Eye-rack" and He Says "Eye-ran." Oh, Let's Just Start by Saying Feb-roo-ary Right?] Reference
I also enjoy the back-slapping atmosphere of boyish camaraderie, and the grammatically adventurous venom unleashed on dissenters. From Wordnik.com. [2007 February « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
In A Man for All Seasons Robert Shaw gave us the young Henry VIII, a booming, back-slapping locker-room bore, and a bad man to cross. From Wordnik.com. [All the Way with Henry the K] Reference
And the reason why came across, too, through the sea of back-slapping: he became known for doing the right thing for the right reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Stiehm: Daschle and The Noise of Democracy] Reference
RMC executive director Kellie Rose Ferguson took time out from the back-slapping and exhortation to speak with NEWSWEEK's Karen Fragala. From Wordnik.com. [A Fight for the GOP's 'Heart and Soul'] Reference
I recall the self congratulatory mass back-slapping that went on when the City of Hampton got Gateway Computers to locate a factory there. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - VDBA’s new director.] Reference
Von Schlichten wondered if there could be another spectacle so woe-be-gone as a back-slapping extrovert with the bottom knocked out of him. From Wordnik.com. [Uller Uprising]
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