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Flag waving   /flæg wˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Flag waving

noun
1.
An appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions.  Synonym: jingoism.






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"Flag waving" Quotes from Famous Books



... afternoon, and through the slant sunbeams the same gay crowd passed in streams on the pavements. On the roof of one of the opposite houses a flag was flying, and it seemed to her that the sight of that flag waving under the blue sky was bound up forever with the intolerable pain in her heart. And with that strange passivity of the nerves which nature mercifully sends to those who have learned submission to suffering, to ...
— Virginia • Ellen Glasgow

... The flag waving, the patriotic speeches, the billboards advertising the glory of war, the call of adventure offered to youth, the pressure of your friends—all made it hard for you to be called ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various



Words linked to "Flag waving" :   jingoism, demagoguery, demagogy



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