Ever the glad-hander, Bobby's mouth was often in gear way before his brain caught up.

But that was typical of Liam the glad-hander, he reasoned.

Nor, with all his bluster, is he a natural Middle American glad-hander.

But the White House apparently didn't want a glad-hander.

He's a glad-hander in the truest sense of the word, working campaign rope lines exhaustively.

Obama has never been a very convincing glad-hander.

Taciturn and not a glad-hander, Thomson was active in many civic projects.

And a good therapist isn’t a glad-hander or a buddy or a cheerleader.

He's a natural glad-hander, more adept in the political arena than in a courtroom.

In the cloakrooms of the Senate, he was dismissed as a glad-hander who craved approval more than power.

And he is not a glad-hander.

I'm not a natural glad-hander, hail-fellow-well-met, I never was.

Isn’t it possible that a glad-hander more aggressive and warmer than Obama would be making a smidgen of headway?

Choose the path of humility; don't be a self-promoter, a glad-hander, a poser.

Mr. Anderson, a born salesman, was the glad-hander.

She is not a glad-hander; she does not flatter politicians' egos or make calls.

Yet the salesman remained the prototypical glad-hander, the most visible exponent, along with advertisers, of consumerism.

He’s not a glad-hander or a natural salesman, like McAuliffe, who’s now Hillary’s finance chairman.

Clinton is notoriously unpunctual and an enthusiastic glad-hander, whereas Bush is known for keeping to a tight schedule.

Mr. Boggs has a lot of trouble finding anybody who will talk to him, and is finally compelled to settle for a public-relations glad-hander.

He was a stereotypical fast-talking glad-hander.

A great glad-hander.

Perhaps Elena Kagan is not a glad-hander in the Marshall style, but he belonged to another era.

Personable and relaxed one-on-one, peppering his conversation with an occasional "Oh, hell," he is not a great public speaker or glad-hander.