flag-waving
flag-waving[ adj ]
fanatically patriotic
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flag-waving \flag-waving\ adj.
fanatically patriotic; same as {chauvinistic}. [prenominal]
Syn: chauvinistic, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic.
[WordNet 1.5]
- Mr. Clinton began his efforts to reclaim the momentum Saturday night at a rally before a flag-waving crowd of 500 supporters at the Manchester YMCA.
- The Iraqi News Agency reported that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein "cut his way through rejoicing crowds in Baghdad" during mass celebrations by flag-waving countrymen Saturday to mark the halt in hostilities.
- Police arrested 58 flag-waving, slogan-chanting animal rights activists after they blocked traffic in a busy intersection and forced open a door at the National Institutes of Health.
- Tough talk on trade was the centerpiece as the south St. Louis congressman began his bid before a flag-waving crowd here.
- Moreover, for foreign companies, a hurdle encountered more often is the flag-waving sometimes associated with such a takeover attempt.
- Wal-Mart's flag-waving patriotism also seems to have struck a responsive chord in the small towns and cities in the heartland, where the chain has multiplied.
- Sympathy for the earthquake victims was a secondary issue for the chanting, flag-waving rally participants, who also carried signs criticizing their native country.
- There Kohl laid a bouquet in memory of war victims before addressing the flag-waving crowd.
- She was among a group of flag-waving students clustered on the curb outside the school.
- Bush and Quayle came to the senator's hometown to launch their campaign, and a crowd of some 8,000 to 10,000 flag-waving and cheering townspeople greeted them.
- In Texas Friday, Bush made a brief stop to greet flag-waving youngsters.
- While the 64-year-old emir's return ignited yet another frenzy of flag-waving and celebratory gunfire, the revelry didn't distract attention from the continuing hardship of daily life in Kuwait.
- Reagan the actor was featured in the mammoth, flag-waving 1943 movie musical "This is the Army," with songs from Berlin.
- At Frye Elementary School in Chandler, he got an enthusiastic welcome from 600 flag-waving children and 200 adults _ and jeers from a dozen pro-Dukakis demonstrators, some clad in chicken costumes.
- The 40-year-old Calderon, who was born in Nicaragua after his father was sent into exile, had tears of joy in his eyes as he entered a San Jose hotel to the cheers of a flag-waving crowd.
- At an airport arrival ceremony in San Jose attended by hundreds of flag-waving school children, Shultz said there has been a two-thirds decline in living standards in Nicaragua over the past four months.
- The Communist premier held unprecedented talks with opposition leaders Sunday and then joined bold reformer Alexander Dubcek at a pro-democracy rally before 300,000 elated, flag-waving demonstrators.
- Monday's two-hour nationwide general strike _ a festive affair of speeches, song and flag-waving _ was the largest public display of opposition to the ruling Communists since they took power in 1948.
- Hundreds of chanting, flag-waving Slavic students called a school strike today and marched around the capital of ethnically troubled Kosovo, protesting alleged harassment by Albanians.
- B-52 bombers left a California air base for an overseas assignment as the Middle East crisis continued, and an Army convoy headed for Saudi Arabia was saluted by hundreds of flag-waving Americans standing along a highway.
- The flag-waving procession swept aside a cordon of about 20 riot police on the outskirts of the capital, Pristina, and ignored pleas by local Communist officials to return to Titova Mitrovica, 30 miles away.
- Dukakis sought to turn Bush's Pledge of Allegiance issue into a boomerang, taunting his rival for flag-waving.
- The flag-waving marchers were greeted with cheers and applause by bystanders.
- When the Americans are about to hold a flag-waving reception, Cosmo learns his band is a no-show.
- Slobo!" arose when Slobodan Milosevic, president of the Serbian republic, ascended a platform high above the flag-waving sea of admirers.
- His rhetoric and flag-waving clouded the charges and almost turned the tables on his interrogators.