| Paul Kaye is hugely popular club DJ Frankie Wild, whose lifetime of thumpingly loud music, drink and drugs destroys his hearing. |
| Often the joke is achieved by a po-faced conjunction of the grandiloquent and the thumpingly mundane. |
| This Cabernet Sauvignon from the Medoc wine-producing district of Bordeaux is very dry and thumpingly oaky, yet delicate. |
| No other post within the commission save perhaps the competition portfolio held by Karel Van Miert offers quite the same scope for directing economic theory towards thumpingly practical consequences. |
| The message is thumpingly clear: only once the king has shown he is Logue's equal in humanity has he earned the Australian's reverence. |
| They should stand firm. As well as being battered in the local elections on May 5th, Mr Clegg's party saw its cherished aim of reforming the Westminster voting system thumpingly rejected in a referendum. |
