drumbeat

“There was this drumbeat, the final season, where journalists are reminding Emmy voters, ‘This is your last chance, please’” — to no avail.

Hitler believed the German people must never be allowed to “cool off”; on the contrary, they had to be subjected to a perpetual drumbeat.

When they gathered inside, the stadium packed well before kick-off, the air raid siren blared out, tears shed as the familiar drumbeat introduced Everton's famous 'Z Cars' anthem.

Both sides have suffered a steady drumbeat of casualties with neither side making decisive gains against the other.

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