whip up interest

Any debate will persuade them they're whipping up interest in fiction.

As a result, the players were sent ahead to the various tournament sites to give clinics to members and generally to whip up interest.

Starting in 1967, we tried hard to whip up interest in the robots among potential customers, but with little success.

They want to whip up interest in their new Paramount film without giving away any of the surprises of the plot.

"The film has just whipped up interest, internationally and politically," Ms. Milliken said.

Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher, is helping to whip up interest by coyly not revealing what it might say.

Like Jeff Koons, he knows how to whip up interest, but there's something profound going on with his work at the same time."

Simon de Pury, Phillips's chairman and the evening's auctioneer, did his best to whip up interest.

So I thought I'd be public-spirited and all that sort of garbage and see what I could do to whip up interest in organizing a group."

There is fear among Assembly leaders that Mr. Pataki, who has called the hearings "obstructionist," could try to whip up interest among voters over the issue.

The Committee through its regular arts and crafts exhibitions and regional festivals organized at Ho, Tamale and Cape Coast whipped up interest in Ghanaian culture.

From the start, the league has sought to field a team representing northern Mexico, to help whip up interest among the sizable Latino population in California, but so far that has proved elusive.

He may also be responsible for the occasional desperate touch intended to whip up interest, such as the noises heard between scenes, noises that sound like high-tension wires shorting out, harmlessly.

The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington is obligingly running a Star Wars exhibition later this year, which should further whip up interest - and revenues.

"The plan is to use tweets and Facebook messages to whip up interest and then have people go out physically to vote," says Gbenga Sesan, a leader of the group.

The trip was the second in a series of visits to state legislatures intended to blunt the troubles over campaign financing and allow Mr. Clinton to whip up interest in his domestic agenda.

There's Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a born-again ethics maven who's made a big splash as a pitchman whipping up interest in Whitewater with specious references to Watergate.

Mr. Bagaza, who was rumored to finance those militias and right-wing newspapers, said tonight that he is neither a candidate for president nor trying to whip up interest in a countercoup that would help him.

Hammering their opponents by a combined score of 72-13 in their first two games, the Patriots had whipped up interest, and anticipation that this season might be even more special than the last one, a Super Bowl year.

But the fiscal crisis that created a $300 million budget deficit, sent the Long Island county's debt rating through the floor, and now has prompted a 9.4 percent increase in property taxes, has whipped up interest in Tuesday's elections to an astonishing level.

An elephant was standing at the corner of Bloor Street and Avenue Road a few days ago, near the epicenter of the Toronto International Film Festival, while an announcer beside a banner tried to whip up interest in the Animal Planet cable television channel among the crowds of festivalgoers and journalists.