Sentence examples for kind of hook from inspiring English sources

"He's really good at thinking, " 'Oh, this is great but it needs some kind of hook in the beginning,' " she said.

A harpsichord's strings are plucked by a small quill plectrum, a kind of hook, which gives the tone its distinctive metallic ping.

"I kind of hook into the person's energy field and my spirit guides give me the message they want to me to convey.

These are not just a collection of other people's hooks; Girl Talk has created a new kind of hook that encompasses 50 years of the revolving trends of pop music.

By and large, though, the essence of subway peddling has always been less about deceit than about the effective sales pitch, delivered at the right volume, at the right point inside the subway car, with just the right kind of hook to drag the submerged consciousness of the average subway rider flopping back to the surface.

A great deal of today's representational painting has some kind of "hook" but what critic can really peer inside a painter's mind and discern whether his or her subject matter comes from sincerity or calculation?

This is perhaps a result of Love Travels at Illegal Speeds, an album on which Coxon appears to have stopped fighting his past and embraced the kind of hooks he brought to Blur's Parklife.

At the same time, Mr. Scofield, whose career has been punctuated by sessions with stalwarts from the popular arena like Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead and the pop-and-bluesman John Mayer, employs in his writing the kind of hooks that linger in listeners' minds.

I was surrounded by the kind of hook-ups that experience tells me can only result in botched, single bed fucks and al fresco handjobs, a genesis of either: months of awkward glances across the lecture hall, or pointless, degree-spanning relationships of convenience.

This time, however, all that's tempered with slick production, professional songwriting, and the kind of hooks usually reserved for catching giant bass.

The thing is, the guy who was doing the piercing and hook stuff for that show turned out to have recently descended into a pretty dire junkie period; and somehow he fucked up and got the wrong kind of hooks.