John Tooley is a part-time senior youth worker, who for two nights a week helps vulnerable youngsters - "the ones who don't join the Scouts or other clubs, not being what you'd call clubbable." ❋ Unknown (2011)
Boswell's life is unusual in illuminating not only the underworld of the prostitutes among whom he spent an impressive proportion of his time but also the heavy, static society of the Scottish aristocracy and the fierily loquacious world of London's "clubbable" men. ❋ Unknown (2001)
They were probably "clubbable" persons, friends with a common interest, each pursuing his own path with perfect freedom, a method which must have enhanced the harmony and efficiency of their meetings. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Dr. Johnson calls a thoroughly "clubbable" man, eminently social and familiar; in private interviews and sometimes in public, overflowing with ❋ Unknown (1865)
Is this a confirmation, I wonder, of the theory entertained by Mr. Emerson and other philosophers, that woman is not a 'clubbable' animal? ❋ William Henry Hurlbert (1861)
There was also the social contact issue - men in a field made more "clubbable" contacts with each other ... which they then drew on for mutual invitations ... no conscious discrimination, but just the instinctive obviousness of getting hold of x or y or asking them for recommendations, usually also male. ❋ Julian Baggini (2010)
I can't think of any of the current candidates who quite fit the term 'clubbable' (which is perhaps just as well as we need someone who isn't too deep in the club atmopshere). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Union League Club by our most enthusiastic Board member bar none who is the essential "clubbable" character. ❋ Unknown (2009)
11 - I can think of a few who are 'clubbable' in another sense of the word. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For more than two decades, Washington's mainstreamers considered Cheney a rare clubbable Republican—genial, brainy he studied for a Ph.D. in political science, and safe. ❋ Unknown (2011)
All of which paints a picture of clubbable clowns ignoring long-running mediocrity at the highest level. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Her personality wasn't especially clubbable, either. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The most consistent answer of-fered by Fincher and Sorkin is that he wants distinction: specifically, he wishes he were as clubbable as a Winklevoss. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Having taken me on, though, he was prepared to make a go of it, and that same evening he inducted me into a peculiar Apache institution which, while revolting, is about the most clubbable function I've ever struck. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)
But with his agenda delayed by entrenched lobbyists and diluted by compromised Democrats, the president would have been better served by independent movements demanding far bolder change from the White House, challenging those in both parties standing in the way, exposing and confronting the lobbyists and the clubbable legislators, mobilizing outside populist anger to counter inside establishment dealing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the event that she runs, or even hints strongly at running, some in the party might look for a more clubbable social conservative, like Barbour, to get behind in order to blunt her power. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Partly, that was because he was so very clubbable. ❋ Walter Isaacson (2009)
[I'm sorry but] your friend is not clubbable enough to [get on] the [guest list] ❋ MrClubbable (2019)
