drumrolls

If anything, the machine-gun drumrolls and marauding metal riffs seem even faster, although the melodies are sharper, and one or two tuneful slower sections offer some calm before the storm.

Pulled Apart By Horses: Tough Love – review 2012

Massed torchlit processions, with trumpet fanfares and thundering drumrolls, epitomized the conceit.

HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

Massed torchlit processions, with trumpet fanfares and thundering drumrolls, epitomized the conceit.

HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

With drumrolls like that, the mission could outlive all of us.

Norman Solomon: Freeing Up Resources... for More War 2009

It went largely unnoticed at the time, but the early days of the gulf war marked a significant reconciliation between America's military and civilian cultures, something that Ronald Reagan's eight years of trumpet fanfares and drumrolls never fully accomplished.

Bombs Over Baghdad 2008

The muffled sound of drumrolls playing in the background, Jackie, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy proceeded on foot at the head of a procession that included President Johnson, foreign dignitaries, JFK staffers, and members of the family.

American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

Nor was he perturbed when, amid the drumrolls preceding this or that award, a phalanx of protesters loudly began shouting from the balcony.

THE DIVA IS A PORN STAR! 2007

The muffled sound of drumrolls playing in the background, Jackie, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy proceeded on foot at the head of a procession that included President Johnson, foreign dignitaries, JFK staffers, and members of the family.

American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

Also ahead: drumrolls, cannons and gushing praise, all for a man who ultimately became a liability for the White House -- coming up, Donald Rumsfeld's splashy send-off at the Pentagon and the legacy he leaves behind.

CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2006 2006

He nails the drumrolls, keeps the rhythm, and never misses a single beat.

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