Sentence examples for congratulatory backslaps from inspiring English sources
But despite the world's congratulatory backslaps for the renowned green country, its clean energy production is not likely to last at this scale, nor is it a model that would work in many other parts of the world.
While he was ecstatic at first, handing out cigars and proudly suffering the congratulatory backslaps of hospital staff, there were signs that he was starting to fray at the edges.
The Daft Punk crew exchange congratulatory backslaps.
They traded congratulatory backslaps, smiles and red carpet photo ops before going in to dinner to be charmed by the President.
For an observer, the atmosphere combines the congratulatory backslapping of intense power network with an undercurrent of feisty rivalry.
A lot of the outrage over Coburn's antics, and the self-congratulatory backslapping over the continuing failure of far-right street movements in Scotland, verges into the territory of saying that racism just "isn't what we do" up here in our near-mythical progressive Caledonian utopia.
Frank R. Lautenberg could be forgiven for feeling conflicted today as he basked in an endless succession of congratulatory phone calls and hearty backslaps.
Literary fiction of that ilk – insular, socially and psychologically hermetic, neurotically backslapping and self-congratulatory about a certain milieu, disaggregated from any estrangement or rubbing of aesthetics against the grain – is in poor shape".
Steer clear of "congratulatory scorecards".
I wanted mine to be congratulatory.
