The Republican candidate, John Cornyn, may lack Mr Kirk's engaging personality and back-slapping manner.
At the start, it is true, the Germans were happily surprised by American back-slapping and smiles.
His propensity for back-slapping and schmoozing can make one forget the time that Richardson has spent as a serious diplomat.
With new popularity and success, he has learnt to relax, smile, even joke, though he will never be the back-slapping type.
His bluff personal style owes more to the boozy, back-slapping atmosphere of the Soviet bureaucracy than the salon manners of international diplomacy.
Instead, the overall effect of the extras is that they are back-slapping: some directly praise Moore and others show more people agreeing with him.
If you go by the smiles and back-slapping that ended Franco-German consultations in Potsdam on November 30th and December 1st, he may have succeeded.
Since every political party, as well as President Vicente Fox, backs the change, the decision provoked an outburst of euphoria and some mutual back-slapping among the normally squabbling deputies.
Thain, a dispassionate, numbers-driven executive lacking the back-slapping charisma of a Richard Grasso or a David Komansky, transformed the Big Board from its clubby ways to a global, electronically driven exchange group.
With Humphreys kicking a penalty it seemed as though Ulster would end the half with a handy 15-8 lead, despite losing full-back Clinton Schifcofske to the sin-bin for slapping the ball away.
General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) tried this a few years back, taking its revered Pontiac GTO nameplate and slapping it on a rear-wheel-drive Holden imported from Australia.
Back in 1999, Geocities had trouble monetizing its audience, slapping low-priced ads all over the site in a desperate attempt to monetize as much of its traffic as it could.
General Motors tried this a few years back, taking its revered Pontiac GTO nameplate and slapping it on a rear-wheel-drive Holden imported from Australia.
Completely against the run of play, Sunderland briefly hit back, Zenden slapping the ball into the corner on his old stomping ground from Jones's knock-down.
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