| By the time we had reached the halfway point, our carriage had taken on a positive, clubby atmosphere. |
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| Finally, I think the clubby atmosphere of the boardroom makes it difficult for a true meritocracy to exist. |
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| This is a laid back clubby bar that attracts middle class Russians and moneyed ex-pats plus local and foreign students into techno and acid jazz. |
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| While online debates can be splintered and diffuse and sometimes clubby, I'm heartened by the sheer number of them. |
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| People in the clubby world of hedge funds think that's the largest launch on record. |
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| It has wide open public areas that women tend to prefer instead of closed lounges where men are being clubby. |
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| This was often through a clubby system where friends on board committees would champion a high salary for the chief executive. |
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| I'm touring for my own satisfaction and want to create a clubby feel, an intimate atmosphere. |
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| Although it has a large-screen TV, Miso pulls a youngish, clubby clientele more than a sports crowd. |
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| For example, you will never catch me at a clubby club where people are taking body shots and barfing on the floor. |
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| Indeed, some argue that the involvement of a private firm has brought much-needed transparency to a secretive, clubby world. |
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| Yale may have traded its clubby atmosphere for a more liberal multiculti image. |
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| While trying to blend in at Chrysler, Zetsche is slowly insinuating himself into Detroit's clubby community. |
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| This deal will confirm the perception that Senators are clubby, timid, and self-congratulatory. |
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| I know that it's too much to ask that this clubby little world be exposed, but we have to try. |
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| We hear a lot today about the brave new world of globalisation and the information revolution sweeping away the old boys network and the clubby hierarchies of yesteryear. |
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| No, not a loner, it's just that I'm not a very clubby person. |
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| He has infused raw excitement and energy into golf, and elevated it from the clubby, elite preserve of conservative, white males to global popularity. |
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| There are rock-ribbed racists who conceal their atavism behind a clubby politesse. |
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| In the clubby confines of America's boardrooms, the sky is the limit. |
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| If you were watching closely, you could even catch the occasional moment when the crowd's woozy sway, spurred on by a few almost clubby backbeats, slid into actual dancing. |
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| There is a clubby feel to the evening as the 40 or so people separate into teams, and jot down their answers as Dave, the quizmaster, shoots questions. |
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| A provincial man, he perceived more clearly than most that his clubby colleagues in London needed to expand their horizons and broaden their base. |
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| He in many ways personifies that country's clubby business elite. |
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| The clubby Stars Above Us finally got some life into the crowd but this quickly fell away with the dirge Last Orders For Gary Stead. |
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| The Scots veterans are following a trend where acts who've been around for a while pair up with clubby remixers. |
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| At last a Paris based electronic structure able to blow some fresh air and avant-gardism into a French clubby scene yet too much sclerosed by House music. |
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| Tracks that are clubby and vibey all mixed together with a little bit of soul, that's our style. |
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| Those that get too clubby miss good ideas produced by outsiders. |
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| Critics fret that the FSB's mission is too broad, its membership of regulators and central bankers too clubby and its staff too small for it to have much impact, whatever the chairman's merits. |
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| The G-Bar has managed to maintain a friendly, clubby atmosphere with little or no attitude from the clientele, uplifting tunes and some of the cutest bar staff in town. |
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