Mr. Weaver, while respected by his peers, isn't a clubbable Washingtonian.
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When civility becomes chumminess, politics looks like the game of a clubbable elite.
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And in Martin Schulz (pictured), its candidate for the chancellery, it has a moderate, clubbable leader.
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He was clubbable, but wouldn't hesitate to wound a friend for perceived deficiencies of character (or housekeeping).
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Voltaire is portrayed as the spiritual forefather of Davos, Thomas Friedman and all the other clubbable paragons of neoliberalism.
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Its Cavaliers tend to be swaggering, arch and clubbable: David Cameron, Nigel Farage and to a lesser extent Tony Blair.
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Its top editors have tended to be tweedy, clubbable figures who slip between academia and the upper reaches of journalism.
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The American was regarded as a charming and clubbable figure, while the Australian had a more severe, ideologically conservative and authoritarian style.
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Put everything together and you have a portrait of a charismatic outsider: well-met, clubbable, ultra-intelligent, but also both distracted and drill-bit focused.
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The S&D picked Frans Timmermans, a clubbable social democrat who is not expected to get the support of the liberal government in his native Netherlands.
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Mr Altmaier, a clubbable, multilingual problem-solver whose dinner parties are the stuff of Berlin political legend, typifies this Saarländisch mix of conviviality and down-to-earthness.
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Grant drank in a very American way—not like the sociable, southern-European kind of drinking, or even the clubbable, competitive drinking of the nineteenth-century British Army.
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As this particular Englishman was genial—in possession of what you might call a clubbable personality—cultured and Catholic, he was well equipped to navigate the ex-Habsburg countries.
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After his moment of self-assertion in Chicago, Arthur reverted to his clubbable ways, tipsily bragging about the machine's questionable tactics when reporters were present during a victory dinner at Delmonico's.
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At high table at his Cambridge college, he could be clubbable and amusing, and might even bend your ear about how much he liked the jazz-age novels of Anita Loos.
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Jo Ellison of the FT describes what has changed as women become more comfortable calling out sexual misconduct: The off-the-cuff remarks, the "handsy" office politics, the clubbable sexism are all being noted.
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Indeed, while Mr Rubio is more clubbable than his fire-breathing rival Ted Cruz—witness his ongoing stream of endorsements from congressmen and governors—he and Mr Cruz, another Cuban immigrant's son and devout first-term senator, have more in common than either cares to admit.
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Clearly, not every club member will think the same way as the president, but in those circumstances, among clubbable people of a similar social caste following the unwritten rule — that you can say what you like and it will not be repeated outside the four walls of the clubhouse — men and women who do share the president's view can vent their opinions on matters of politics and foreign affairs and race and immigration.
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The Club website states that "Candidates have to be clubbable" (i.e. "clubbable" in the sense of a traditional gentlemen's club) and "the Hawks' Club remains unashamedly elite", claiming to include only "the top one per cent" of University sportsmen.
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A Clubbable Woman is a 1970 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the first novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series.
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A very clubbable man, he attracted interest in the 1990s as a rare survivor of the pre-Second World War Parliament.
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He was of a clubbable nature, and delighted in wit-combats and brilliant repartees, the flash of which was perfectly electric.
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Cavendish was a bon vivant known for his warm, clubbable nature and unswerving loyalty to friends. He married twice and had two children by his second wife, Elspeth.
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A clubbable man, he enjoyed "the companionship of clever and attractive women" even more. Throughout his life, Asquith had a circle of close female friends, which Margot termed his "harem". In 1912, one of these, Venetia Stanley became much closer. Meeting first in 1909–1910, by 1912 she was Asquith's constant correspondent and companion.
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This fact is often overlooked since Bathurst was far from being a radical. The social diarist Maria Edgeworth, often alluded to by Jane Austen, wrote that he was an "old school dog" and certainly Bathurst was clubbable. A "formalist", she thought who was "very much from that class". It was under Pitt's ministry that prisoners were first transported to Botany Bay.
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Clearly a clubbable and convivial man in 1909 Millais was a founder member of the Shikar Club, a sportsclub where like-minded associates could dine and discuss their passion for hunting especially big game hunting. Millais was passionate about hunting and fellow members included the famous hunters Frederick Selous (the brother of ornithologist Edmund Selous) and explorer and hunter Frank Wallace. The club still survives and includes the Duke of Edinburgh amongst its members.
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When the war ended, Touche read for the Bar and was called in 1923 by the Inner Temple. He joined the South-Eastern Circuit where he specialised in commercial cases. Also getting involved in business, he was elected a director of the British Automatic Company in 1928. Touche was a very 'clubbable' man who was prominent in London society; he served on the Executive Committee of the United Club for many years and was chairman in 1938.
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After the war, both the number of books and their quality of production increased as shortages ceased. The Crime Club managed to keep up with the times with far more diverse and gritty novels and was able to claim notable 'firsts' throughout the remainder of its existence, publishing the first editions of all of the early Lovejoy novels by Jonathan Gash from 1977 onwards starting with The Judas Pair and the Dalziel and Pascoe books of Reginald Hill starting in 1970 with A Clubbable Woman.
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Heseltine was not one to befriend and gossip with colleagues or backbenchers. He did not regard this as an insurmountable problem, as neither Heath nor Thatcher had been particularly "clubbable" either. From about the mid 1970s, he began a campaign of addressing local associations, sometimes using a helicopter to speak to several in one day. Heseltine had often had a reputation for being very cold and aloof with backbench MPs and party activists (Steven Norris claims that after a visit to his constituency in 1983, local activists used a poster of Heseltine as a dartboard).
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As a result, McKenna declined as he had no wish to vacate the bank. McKenna continued to write economic reports for Whitehall and Westminster, but by August 1923 his political career had come to an end. The lasting impression was one of the pin-striped merchant banker, a model of precision, but not a clubbable leader of men; his absence from London society and Brooks's seemed to imply retirement. However, his financial reputation was such as to prompt Stanley Baldwin to demand his return to government in the 1930s.
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He was known for his lack of patience, and when angry or frustrated was known to fling his hat to the floor in a gesture of rage. His biographer Kitty Hauser noted that "apparently trifling events left an indelible mark on him", for he would remember a perceived slight for decades. Bowden expressed the view that while Crawford "had a quick temper, which he strove to control ... he was essentially a friendly man", adding that he could be "clubbable, hospitable and kind". Jonathan Glancey referred to Crawford as "a compelling if decidedly cantankerous anti-hero" and an "essentially Victorian eccentric".
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The monument raised for her was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, together with most of the church. Sir William remained clubbable, and of good appetite. At the Grocers' Company feast in June 1561 he was a guest in the company of the Lord Mayor (Sir William Chester), Sir Roger Cholmeley, Sir Martin Bowes, Sir William Garrard, Thomas Lodge and others, entertained with clerks singing and viols playing. A month later he stood deputy for the Earl of Shrewsbury as godfather at the christening of the son of Garter King of Arms Sir Gilbert Dethick.
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He was by nature ambitious, 'clubbable' sociable, and frequently seen at High Society parties in the fashionable houses of the Edwardian era. He was secretive and patriotic: accordingly founding the Society of Islanders. Its one great principle was to build "two for one Keels" over and above any other Navy in the world in order to maintain global peace. In 1911 Esher helped ease out Lord Knollys, who was then seventy-five years old, having been in the Royal Household since 1862, but who had lost some royal confidence over the negotiation of the Parliament Act.
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Whatever his physical shortcomings, his personality, his conversation and his sense of humour were attractive and infectious, Crook commenting that "his range of friends [covered] the whole gamut of pre- Raphaelite London." Burges's childlike nature occasioned comment; Dante Gabriel Rossetti composing a limerick about him (see box). Robert Kerr's novel of 1879, The Ambassador Extraordinary, involves an architect Georgius Oldhousen, whom Crook considers to be based on Burges; he is "not exactly young in years but is in an odd way youthful in appearance and in manners Georgius can never grow old ... His strong point is a disdain for Common Sense ... His vocation is Art ... [a] matter of Uncommon Sense." Burges was a clubbable man.
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