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Of course, he was away until Saturday on the happy-clappy thing with his kids.

This is not a call for a happy-clappy news service, nor Soviet-style nothing is wrong.

How do you reckon people would vote in this fictional happy-clappy multi-culti state?

He added, "We have not lost any of the advertising, except from some from happy-clappy 60's churchmen."

To understand the impact of my actions requires also learning, understanding, research, questioning beliefs; it's not a cosy, happy-clappy option.

The process is not enriched by happy-clappy social voters making hit-and-run visits only to nominate and to vote.

Disregard the happy-clappy fibbery of the Department for Education.

A definable and self-defined group supports the book in a happy-clappy, social-media sense.

He was a bornagain Christian, Scientologist, something like that, or one of the happy-clappy bands.

How dare you sit in judgement on a man who's worth a dozen of you and your happy-clappy nutters?

The organ was thumping out a happy-clappy tune next door as I used a knuckle to press twenty-seven.

He explains, "Almost apologetically, they run through the reassuring hits to happy-clappy acclaim.

And no doubt those happy-clappy expres- sions were virtual fakes painted on bemused faces.

Ah yes, those cheerful, grinning Africans with their crazy happy-clappy religion and their shiny fruit stalls.

The Tories, on the other hand, amplify both the free-market cheerleading that characterised the last government, and the latter's simpering, happy-clappy approach to serious social issues.

I am never going to be one of those happy-clappy supermommies, poised to make papier-mâché castles in the playroom or out in the yard organizing ballgames.

David has become a sort of happy-clappy right-on Christian version of Barbie's Ken, except without Ken's rugged good looks and contoured body.

Galway is a dedicated Christian who visits various types of churches while travelling (as long as they are not modern and "happy-clappy") and prays before his concert performances.

However, Damian Thompson, editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald, called Shine, Jesus, Shine "the most loathed of all happy-clappy hymns".

Happy-clappy, or Happy clappers, is a derogatory term originating in the United Kingdom, referring to a style of Christian worship particularly evident in Evangelical and Pentecostal churches.

Kendrick also has his critics, among them the journalist Quentin Letts, who has described him as "king of the happy-clappy banalities" and "the nation's pre-eminent churner-outer of evangelical bilge".

More than 1,500 people turned up there for a sunrise service on Easter Sunday, yet I found the "happy-clappy" atmosphere cloying and gratefully returned to the smells and bells of the traditional ceremonies.

He notes in the booklet of the soundtrack CD for Series 2 "Also Johnny Vaughan ask me why all the music is so sad and not plinky-plonk, happy-clappy cartoon type stuff, 'cos I don't want to be the Big Breakfast, 'nuff said."

The next day I sat in the hugely atmospheric Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries where the happy-clappy gospel choir was stuggling to compete with the more compelling beats coming from the drums of the Diamond Steel band letting rip in the Derek Walcott Square right alongside.