kumbaya

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  • Our support will come under attack as many of our new President's supporters have a deep and abiding dislike for them and have convinced themselves that the Palestinians are victims who would begin singing kumbaya, if the Israelis would just stop bombing pre-schools for a couple of days. —  BLACKFIVE
  • The meeting between the President and the bank executives was a "kumbaya" moment, but unfortunately, from my perch, the moralizing by the bankers was disingenuous and their intentions were simply not as noble as they represented.
  • We were all kumbaya, we were all happy, we were all hunky-dory, we were one world. —  Latest Articles
  • I tend to be a loner, I don't buy into a lot of the kumbaya-ism that's in vogue, not necessarily a "people person". —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • To make him sound like the kumbaya leader and to make rogue dictators feel good. —  GOPUSA
 

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