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Not the chest-beating, costume-drama, moon-launch Nietzsche of Zarathustra – though there's fantastic stuff in it.
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As we slide into the coming multi-polar world, pols will increasingly be chest-beating about reclaiming the time when America ruled the earth.
Harry Shearer: USA 3.0 Harry Shearer 2011
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This is a blindingly obvious point, and your sorry little chest-beating only makes you look worse for not understanding it, or pretending not to understand it.
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Perhaps, but winning the march of manacled midgets is scarcely cause for chest-beating.
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The chest-beating got a little hardcore a little fast.
Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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So imagine my surprise--and OK, chest-beating delight--when the totals came back and I'd doubled up on the next closest competitor, a guy half my age.
Maria Rodale: The Trouble with Testosterone Maria Rodale 2011
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After all, I can imagine a scenario where we or Heifer International (who do it better, by the way) could have done this good thing for the people of Iraq without the preliminary fireworks, chest-beating, murder and mayhem.
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As "second-generation Abstract Expressionists," these three women arrived after a group of hard-drinking, argumentative, chest-beating male artists.
A Fiercely Gifted Artist Karen WIlkin 2011
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So imagine my surprise--and OK, chest-beating delight--when the totals came back and I'd doubled up on the next closest competitor, a guy half my age.
Maria Rodale: The Trouble with Testosterone Maria Rodale 2011
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Perhaps, but winning the march of manacled midgets is scarcely cause for chest-beating.
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