Excited commotion

Usage examples of ballyhoo.

Leaving the nearly branchless trunk for somebody else to roll in, Catalan took aim at the next ballyhoo and brought it down too.

Naturally I figure it is some kind of advertising dodge put on by the Garden to ballyhoo the circus, or maybe the fight between Sharkey and Risko which is coming off after the circus, but guys are still yelling and running up and down, and dolls are screaming until finally I realize that a most surprising situation prevails.

But if the media get hold of it and ballyhoo it, the politicians will have to react to what the media is saying, not what we tell them.

Tex Goldman mob, he had done very little more than could have been done by any detective with an original turn of mind and an equal freedom from responsibility to the stolidly unimaginative Powers who draw princely salaries for encumbering with red tape and ballyhoo the perfectly simple process of locating ungodliness and smacking it on the nose.

CHAPTER 11 Starting the Ballyhoo THE GREENBORO newspapers on the following day pushed all news, including recent developments in the Dearing case, into the second and subsequent pages, whole-heartedly devoting their first pages to the sensational bill which had been introduced by Senator McMorrow in the State Legislature.

But just when all the ballyhoo is at its height, Cady rescues the book with a well-orchestrated shift of gears, bringing it all back down to the quieter level where it had begun, and the battle proceeds to resolve.

The fact remains that fast-food critics comprise only a small slice of society, and despite their persistent ballyhoo, the vast majority of Americans remain passionate and unapologetic fast-food lovers.

Mal strolled up to a garish job ballyhooing Dawn of the Righteous--a noble Russki facing off a drooling blackshirt brandishing a Luger.

Changes were ballyhooed as measures to improve the legality of police forces, to make them more responsive to the citizenry.

Rather, it will follow naturally upon the gradual recognition that the overarching theme that directs the Archaic Revival is the idea/ideal of a vegetation Goddess, the Earth herself as the much ballyhooed Gaia--a fact well documented by nineteenth-century anthropologists, most notably Frazer, but recently given a new respectability by Riane Eisler, Marija Gimbutas, James Mellaart, and others.

Whatever their reasons, this is what the government ballyhooed to press and PTA, who trusted the government completely.

The Eagle Rock Legion Hall still had a sign ballyhooing Friday night boxing, and my Central Division beat was still winos, rag suckers and Jesus shriekers.

Ward was ballyhooing his new snitch--a bookie/loan shark named Sal D’Onofrio.

The papers ballyhooing the Dream-a-Dreamland opening--the other cops Moochie Mouse-squeaked him ad nauseam.