backslapper

"The fact that I may not be a backslapper is part of my character," he said.

Mrs. Whitman, no backslapper, does not try to be one of the boys.

In the third race, the reporter bet Backslapper, his first race ever.

Ms. Richards is feisty, a backslapper and a head-cruncher when she needs to be.

The balding Mr. Abrams, who wears glasses, is no backslapper.

Backslapper went off at 3-1.

And my daily absence from campus made it easier to portray me as an establishment backslapper gliding his way through the turmoil of the time.

Mr. Cheney is no backslapper, but he relates in his own laconic way to Republicans of all stripes.

Like his opponent, Mr. Pappas, 39, is not much of a backslapper.

Backslapper ran earnestly, and fourth.

He's a brilliant man but he's not a glad hander, he's not a backslapper.

A real backslapper.

A glad-hander and backslapper.

"I guess there's a template for the media that a candidate has to be a baby kisser and a backslapper," Ms. Matalin said.

He is soft-spoken and courteous, coming across as more of a hand-holder than a backslapper, with a modest smile and an avuncular gaze through gold-rimmed glasses.

He'll never be a backslapper or a soul-barer, but he has discovered that he doesn't have to turn his back on the public after match point in order to relax.

It is the grip of a pro, a (perish the thought) political pro, which he is, the silvery-haired son of a senator, accomplished lawmaker, backslapper and armsqueezer.

In 1960, New York Times reviewer Richard F. Shepard wrote, "He does not crash into the home with the false jollity and thunderous witticisms of a backslapper.

He is not the sort of Senator others gather around because he is a backslapper or has the ability to tell good stories, but he is respected, and liked, as a serious man."

A backslapper, schmoozer and womanizer with a witty turn of phrase, he nearly steals the show, and it's a good thing for Mr. Renehan that murder sweeps him off the stage.

He was a natural politician, a gregarious, good-natured backslapper who, by handing out jobs and charity, earned the love and loyalty of the lower orders, especially the Irish immigrants despised by the city's establishment.

In some ways, the two are an odd couple, Mr. Bush a backslapper with a perpetually sunny outlook and Mr. Cheney dour, worried and withdrawn to all but his closest friends and associates.

He promised not to operate under a good ol' boy system of favors gained and owed, and white voters and black voters liked his plain-spokenness and the fact that he was neither backslapper nor backscratcher.

He was never considered a gifted strategist, and he had a reputation as a nice enough rube, a backslapper who tried a little too hard to get people to like him, comically tripped over malapropisms and nervously overate at restaurants.

If President Clinton were looking for a Chief in the model of Earl Warren, a gregarious backslapper with a big heart who builds coalitions by sheer force of personality, Justice Ginsburg would not be his woman.