Rah, rah, rah, bring things down and bring them up again.
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Who or what is going HAW HAW HAW, CAW CAW CAW or RAH RAH RAH?
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None of the oil industry execs gathered in Houston have been as overtly political or rah-rah-rah about Donald Trump as Harold Hamm.
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The notion of being a salesperson in a rah rah ... You know me well enough to know that if ... You're a little rah-rah, but go ahead.
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If it's something that we can talk it out, then we can talk it out, because it's not always rah rah this or rah rah that because we grown.
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" The actress continued, "I had to not to go in and go 'rah, rah, rah' — but to go, 'okay, let's hear your story, but let's also have compassion for the other side.
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When a befuddled reporter followed up by asking "Pop is rah-rah?" the Warriors' backup big finally cracked a smile, but nodded his head that yes, in fact, Popovich was more rah-rah.
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Stone has always been a positive, rah-rah kind of executive.
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Get a bunch of loyal rah, rah customers and all that.
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"I'm not some rah-rah, 'Go, capitalism!' person," Mr. Raz says.
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"Timmy's not a big rah-rah guy," Popovich said in March.
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The incumbent in my district is Claudia Tenney She's a Trumper, she's anti science, gun nutty, rah rah rah kill all the people, supportive of the Muslim ban, bad on net neutrality, all the wrong things.
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I'm a rah-rah team player because I want my team to win.
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The movie ends triumphantly, with a distinct flavor of rah-rah girl power.
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Growth, even the metastatic kind, is usually trumpeted with a lot of rah-rah.
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Elon Musk finally has his, even if it's more melancholy fable than rah-rah rouser.
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The pep band led the "R-U, Rah-Rah" cheer of the university's fight song.
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But despite the book's provocative premise, it isn't a work of rah-rah pop feminism.
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We didn't want our film to be a "rah rah, war is great" kind of film.
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"When you're down by a ton, I'm not getting into that rah-rah voice," she said.
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"He'll say things to the point and not be a 'rah rah' type guy," Blais said.
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However, company leaders should establish a sense of purpose without being "very rah-rah," he says.
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I'm not a "Rah-rah, look at me" leader, which can be frustrating for some people sometimes.
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Behind the rah-rah free speech attitude, dissenting opinions on Gab are quashed in their own way.
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What's curious is how rah-rah Musk has become all of a sudden, especially about someone like Tillerson.
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Like Juicy tracksuits and rah-rah skirts, I swore I'd never have a part in their inevitable revival.
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She says all the right things – rah rah team spirit – and yet can't hide what she really wants.
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Introduced by the Public Schools Athletic League in 2014, stunt is less rah-rah and more basket tosses.
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When someone mentioned West's answer to Kerr, he claimed "I'm not that rah-rah," with a big grin.
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The good guy always wins in the end and there's always this sort of rah-rah boosterism to it.
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What it says to me: Key W.H. aides know that rah-rah hits on Fox News aren't cutting it.
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Still, she could not contain her inner rah-rah: Whenever a jogger passed, she stopped to cheer them on.
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Howard actually seems to believe all this rah-rah rubbish, as do the grinning zombies who work alongside him.
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We said our "goodbye" in the middle of campus after a beautiful rah-rah program to close out orientation.
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So the big rah-rah, "Go team!" scenes you see in sports films aren't going to be easy to replicate.
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There's outrage culture, safe spaces, the lean-in culture — but also the Gen-X-Baby-Boomer rah-rah capitalism, yay!
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All three generally avoid rah-rah rhetoric in their speeches, instead focusing on calmly highlighting what they've accomplished in Congress.
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"There was no rah-rah speech on the sideline; there was no, 'Hey, we got to get going,'" Burrow said.
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Yet the message of the film doesn't quite sink to "rah rah sisterhood" levels after Kris and Riley's initial conflict.
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" Even Chad, a rah-rah medical marijuana believer, admits there's just "not a lot of hard clinical research about [cannabis].
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It's easy to imagine an optimistic, rah-rah girl-power version of Support the Girls, but this is decidedly not that.
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This isn't rah-rah boosterism: These awards can frustrate and often miss the mark, but that's why they remain so crucial.
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"My primary concern about him is he doesn't do the whole emotional rah-rah speech most politicians do," Mr. Ho said.
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As anyone who's been reading the newspapers knows, it's not all wry jokes about overburdened latrines and rah-rah good cheer.
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From the get-go there have been consistent calls to pick a superhero team, ranging from rah-rah to angsty to … Walmart.
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But Tiwari is better at probing the emotions under the drama than building a nail-biting, rah-rah finish, though she tries.
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The Republicans will always be the Law and Order Party, I guess—they're going to do that, the "Rah Rah" for the Cops.
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In order to have a lasting impact, mentors must formalize relationships with young women, not haphazardly come in to deliver rah-rah talks.
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You register the obvious jokes in each character — the rah-rah gym teachers, the eager disseminator of cheer and calm, the seething milquetoast.
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Finally, the onslaught of images of the U.S.A. in the sixties—those cars, those clothes, that hair—generates a misleadingly rah-rah glamour.
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That, or they feel it's just a fad and are eager to return to rah-rah pro-America narratives that they're content to repeat forever.
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The gym resembled a set from a movie, its black walls plastered in rah-rah quotes from great men of history handwritten on canvas panels.
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Many remember ACT UP as a rah-rah, on the streets organization, but you were also talking to corporations about drug development, to politicians about policy.
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Ailes was ousted from Fox News, sure, but that event was hardly the rah-rah tale of female empowerment that Bombshell makes it out to be.
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Compared with the pros, college football has a pleasing rah-rah atmosphere, a rich store of traditions, a lot more cheerleaders and halftime shows by marching bands.
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The martial-arts faceoffs do tend to be more rah-rah exciting, but the gunfights are just a lot of blood-splatter and bodies hitting the floor.
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It was also a huge change from these events' typical "rah rah, wow, so cool" enthusiasm, creating a moment that was genuinely moving and also ... pretty weird?
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We always say we're not necessarily "rah-rah" feminists, but our core hashtag is #MarchingDaily, That means showing up to yourself every day and honoring your purpose.
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"It's about solidarity with women and privacy in public," says Eric Don, a painter and sculptor in a black leather jacket and pale pink rah-rah skirt.
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The entry here is MIRACLE ON ICE — the unlikely 1980 Olympic hockey victory that was all rife with Cold War gravitas and rah rah United States patriotism.
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"We really bought into the ethos of trying to make change from inside rather than outside, or taking more of a rah-rah approach," Mr. McCoy said.
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Undoubtedly, I would have made the fans, the media, even the front office more comfortable if I was a more 'rah-rah guy,' but that's not me.
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And Qu Yuan himself may have smiled at the "poetic" name of the team racing to raise money for breast cancer: Rah Rah 4 the Ta-Tas.
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The problem was the program needed a little shot or infusion of energy to the fan base and to give a little rah-rah here and there.
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Race, which stars Selma's Stephan James as Owens and Jason Sudeikis as Larry Snyder, Owens' coach at Ohio State, could easily have descended into Hollywood rah-rah.
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In 2018 spending millions on rah-rah promotional spectacles for platforms like Facebook's and Google's is particularly unseemly when set against the conga line of travesties they've enabled.
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" Then there was the time a couple seasons ago when cameras caught the rah-rah Popovich telling his starting shooting guard Danny Green to "shut the fuck up.
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After MongoDB's original submission, there were rah-rah rally cries amongst the members to find reasons to deem SSPL not an open-source license, followed by some +1's.
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"Jodi never guessed that the rah-rah feminist messages she was getting were from an actor-agent hired to sabotage their invesgitation and undercut victims' stories," the book reads.
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It would be nice if someday the powers that be would cop to the idea that college football isn't the rah-rah amateur pipe dream they believe it to be.
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While it might not lend itself to "rah-rah" campaign-style speeches, it's essential to contemplate what's at stake when we consider levying punitive tariffs on our major trading partners.
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Newly engaged, Shlesinger dispenses advice on sex and dating, which is delivered at a rah-rah empowering pitch even as it hews pretty close to traditional standards and gender roles.
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To many of us, watching the 2020 race unfold has felt less like a celebration of rah-rah feminism and more like a daily, live-tweeted, televised pelting by the patriarchy.
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When Barry's mother (Ashley Judd) arrives, he is embarrassed by her rah-rah liberalism and admits, in an unvarnished way he normally keeps buttoned up, how out of place he feels.
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I wanted to believe in all those rah-rah myths about our glorious melting pot, but the truth is, we, like everyone else, will have to fight for our place here.
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It goes without saying that conservatives hate Obama for expanding the regulatory state, allegedly being insufficiently rah-rah in his patriotism, and forcing bakers to create wedding cakes for gay couples.
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Loving's biggest accomplishment may be eschewing too much of a rah-rah-we-won attitude after the case is decided in the Lovings' favor, which serves to underline how little has changed.
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"Undoubtedly, I would have made the fans, the media, even the front office more comfortable if I was a more 'rah-rah guy', but that's not me," Manning told reporters on Friday.
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Look through the rah-rah triumphalism of the piece, however and you'll see that far from succumbing to some irresistible activist push, incumbents Google and Facebook craftily shaped the legislation to suit themselves.
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On the other hand, there is also the possibility that these three movies will turn into empty and alienating rah-rah gestures of sub-girl power "empowerment" in the Do Nothing Bitch vein.
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Rahr, who refers to himself in the third person as "Rah Rah," was banned from the famed sushi restaurant Nobu in 2012 for cursing out the manager, according to the New York Post.
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Good and true Americans — as symbolized by a soldier who witnessed 9/11 as a boy and played football, that most rah-rah sport — need to take out their batons and fight back.
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It's pretty cool that Lil Wayne, not traditionally a real rah-rah, lovey-dovey type, made a song about encouraging people to have more self-esteem even if they've been in hurtful relationships before.
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As much as that's kind of a "rah rah" thing, I just wanted there to be that document, and I didn't want to have to be in a position of retreat or reaction or defensiveness.
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The year before, they had also added Rah-Rah Raisins as well as two gluten-free varieties — Trios and its Toffee-tastic cookies — though Toffee-tastic is the only variety currently still offered of the three.
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He spoke across from the arena where the remaining 2020 Democratic contenders would be addressing the crowd at a rah-rah candidate dinner, their teams' cheers already audible from the street above as they filed in.
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The "rah rah" patriotism Trump thought he could gin up with it wasn't building, and the costs -- as they always do when you are talking about massive movements of our military -- were going through the roof.
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Several seasons ago, you'd watch an episode of Game of Thrones as two characters embraced—wide smiles and tight grips—and you'd think, Oy, am I about to witness another rah-rah, fuck-your-feelings backstabbing murder?
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His new favorite pastimes include mucking it up with his rah-rah pals, violating Prohibition laws, and being that guy at the party who pretends he's going to jump off the ledge because he's so deep and nihilistic.
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"Before any of these elections took place — the Iowa caucus, or [the] New Hampshire primary, my sense was, there was a structural impediment to people going out and being 'rah rah' and voting for Joe Biden," Myers said.
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Then, on the Middle East front, Olivia gives Mellie a rah-rah speech about how of course they're going to "restore Rashad's presidency and return peace to Bashran" when just one scene ago Olivia was going against Mellie's ideas.
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Matt Apuzzo A lot of it's been theater, but — and here I go getting all rah-rah — it isn't necessarily a bad thing that people are being asked to think in a really big way about law and policy.
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So much of this season, and this episode in particular, was about rah-rah payoff, action and sex, and long-gestating protagonist-banter — about giving the fans the things they most want, especially if they don't think about them too hard.
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What this amounts to is there are far too many women — many of them just beginning their adult lives or right in the middle of their prime — being left behind by the pink ribbon rah-rah of breast cancer awareness month.
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Yet where the original film (based on Brian Garfield's 1972 anti-vigilantism novel) was a brutal psychological study of a bereaved man using random violence almost as a form of therapy, the tone here veers from rah-rah to jokey.
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To her credit, Bagieu doesn't back away from drawing the marks of violence on their faces and their bodies, which may come as a surprise to those who are expecting a rah-rah young adult girl-power sort of read.
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Matt Hasselbeck, an ESPN analyst and former Seahawks quarterback, said he was skeptical of Carroll when he took over his team in 2010, seeing him as an annoying, rah-rah college guy parachuting in from the University of Southern California.
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It's a great story, but Bombshell unfortunately feels like it misses its own point; Ailes was ousted from Fox News, sure, but that event was hardly the rah-rah tale of female empowerment that Bombshell makes it out to be.
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Sapna Maheshwari has the memorable tale of a totally artificial space and the people who need it to work: There is also the "rah-rah-Instagram-slash-feminist-wall," an area filled with photographs of Instagram influencers and messages of female empowerment.
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While some of this rah-rah attitude is to be expected from a photo-op of a full cabinet meeting for the first time, a few moments seemed to go a bit over-the-top in making sure Trump's ego was placated.
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Nicknamed Hawk by his early Wisconsin players for the prominent nose that he tugged constantly, Johnson picked up the sobriquet Badger Bob from his players on the 1976 United States Olympic team for his love of Wisconsin hockey and his rah-rah style.
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"I really got tired of doing the rah-rah politics thing and I thought, This is something I can do to bring people together from the left and from the right in the pursuit of good information, and in the pursuit of truth," she said.
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The rah-rah atmosphere at campaign events for Senator Bernie Sanders is often punctured, if only momentarily, by a sharp question from a voter asking him to explain his record on gun regulation and his vote affording special legal protection to the gun industry.
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Where to watch: Amazon Prime Show your family wants to watch: Shooter/Valor/The Brave Better alternative: Generation Kill Why: The new crop of military TV shows can be a little trying if you're anything less than rah-rah patriotic about the American armed forces.
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If we're all on the blue team, kind of rah-rah cheerleading partisan content that favors the blue team might be something I'm going to tend to want to share in that sense, because I want everybody to see that I'm part of the team.
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But thanks to Kaepernick's position inside the NFL—which is to say, at a nexus of rah-rah patriotism, quasi-military tradition, and the most popular sport in America—this became the biggest story of the week, obsessively covered by the media and hot-take merchants.
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But despite the show's rah-rah framing, some of her actions have been unbelievably ruthless: using her dragons to burn people alive more than once, crucifying a couple hundred people, leaving her unqualified boyfriend to rule a city in turmoil so she can go back to Westeros.
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Rather than fire up his crowd of 500-600 with a rah-rah speech that would bring them to their feet and propel them out the door raring to vote for him, Biden gave them instead what came off as a stream-of-conscience Lenny Bruce routine.
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David Perdue, a Georgia Republican, told CNN the President did not need to make a "rah-rah" speech but should make the point that the challenge before Republicans was bigger than tax reform -- it was about their capacity to improve their lackluster performance to show they could govern.
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"I never wanted this to just be a 'Democrat rah-rah' site, because then the only people who read it are Democrats and what are you really accomplishing?" he said over Earl Grey tea at Scenic Route, a cafe popular with political types down the street from his newsroom.
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A very loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and an ecological disaster in Dubai, Spec Ops: The Line was a stark and decidedly political break from the rah-rah patriotism of that era's Call of Duty shooters and their ilk.
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An album that was initially dismissed by fans and critics alike is now considered one of the best and most influential records of all time, turning the Beach Boys from happy-go-lucky dudes who embodied the rah-rah cheesy spirit of the early 1960s into an archetype of the psychedelic, experimental capital-S Sixties.
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The film served as an implicit rebuke to the rah-rah heroism of Reagan-era action movies that glorified America's global military interventions, and as a direct response to the Vietnam revisionism that was gaining cultural traction at the time, which floated the idea that the war could have been won if only America would have been more committed.
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Largely inspired by "the idealized American teenager," aka the cheerleaders and the jocks, the whole rah rah sis boom bah thing manifested itself most prominently and most literally: little yarn pom-poms hung from the backs of pockets and handbags, and the now iconic cowboy-style shirt received a high school remix; the button-ups were remade in satin and were reminiscent of vintage varsity jackets.
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Although he seemed to embody the ideal of the self-made man, my father was not terribly rah-rah about the bootstrap fantasy of the American Dream; he was too aware of how tenuous his trajectory had been, how easily his good life could have gone badly instead, how many helping hands and lucky breaks and second chances he had had along the way.
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I'm not much for these so-called national days of food recognition, all the rah-rah boosterism that leaves my email and social media traps thick with press releases celebrating things like National Raspberry Cream Pie Day, National Ice-Cream Sandwich Day or National Grab-Some-Nuts Day (yesterday, as it happens, according to the National Day Calendar, which is someone's actual job to maintain).
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The singer drives that point home several times in the music video for her latest single, a clip from the rah-rah school of feminism that casts Lopez as a '50s housewife, a put-upon Joan Holloway-esque secretary, a Rosie the Riveter figure, a rad '80s businesswoman, and an angry, Howard Beale-channeling news anchor — who urges the rest of the Lopezes to rise up against their male oppressors.
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" '"My Brilliant Friend": The HBO Adaptation Scrubs Off the Books' Girl-Power Sheen and Returns Them to the Gritty Streets of Naples' [Slate] At Slate, Willa Paskin argues that the series frees the material from the book series's reputation a rah-rah tale of female friendship: "Without shortchanging the bond between Lila and Lenù, the series makes it impossible to gloss over, block out, or ignore the particular environment in which the girls are born and raised: the grit and grime, the fear and the violence, the omnipresent, omnipotent machismo surrounding them.
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