drumbeat

The news has been a steady, depressing drumbeat of complicity tales lately.

The drumbeat of criticism had spread to business leaders, including some of Trump’s most assiduous supporters in the billionaire and millionaire class.

“Things are looking bleak,” Jonathan belts in a duet that pits his selfishness against her do-gooderism over a militaristic drumbeat.

The drumbeat of demands for the UK to boost spending was getting louder even before Trump moved into the White House.

Rubio’s task, then, appears to be keeping up a drumbeat of public praise for Trump’s initiative while trying to quietly ensure that the president’s regional ambitions don’t go awry as a result.