OK, without further ado, let’s read a few media examples of situations where people give others the glad hand – it’s up to you to see whether all of them are sincere:
1. Tired from a 12-hour transcontinental flight, disappointed because they played under par and lost to Brazil in the quarterfinals, accompanied by wives, girlfriends and in some cases children, England’s footballers landed at Heathrow little short of midnight, wanting only, as most of us do in these underwhelming circumstances, to get home for a nightcap and bed.
Now there is a furore because they didn’t leap off the plane glad-handing everyone in sight and signing autographs as though they were conquering heroes.
They weren’t conquering heroes. They played pretty well to come through the qualifying group and the second round and promptly fell at the next hurdle.
- No reason to celebrate, DailyMail.co.uk, June 26, 2002.
2. As President Obama glad-handed fellow world leaders at today’s G-20 summit, he took special note of Argentina President Cristina Kirchner -- recently re-elected easily, without a runoff.
“So Nicolas, we all have to take lessons,” Obama told the G-20 host, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.
Both Obama and Sarkozy face tough re-election bids next year.
Obama has had fun with Sarkozy throughout the day. Earlier, he cited the new baby girl of the French president and first lady, former model Carla Bruni.
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