Do we say upbeat or catchy

upbeat 1 occurrences

On the eve of the election, a day of pause in electioneering, I wrote an upbeat story (about three takes) and handed it to Mr. Salkhade, the news editor from Maharashtra.

catchy 14 occurrences

"I remember you," said Jeremy, speaking rather, slowly, and throwing in a little catchy laugh that was like a war-cry heard through a microphone.

It contains a thought, is catchy, quotable, easy to remember; and the Restoration writers delighted in it.

There was nothing "catchy" or drawing about it.

Possibly he took up the far, faint tune that came from the straggling gang of negroes away off in the field, as they slowly chopped amid the threadlike rows of cotton plants which lined the level ground, for the melody he hummed softly and then sang strongly, in the quavering, catchy tones of a good old country churchman, was "I'm glad salvation's free.

The trouble was that many of the congregation would think only of the original words of these catchy tunes, and in the general uproar some of the priests would sing the actual texts, thinking that the people would not hear them, and forgetting that they were supposed to be for an all-hearing ear.

I mean, yes, they wrote some catchy melodies, but really.

I pass that way, common scraper of catgut that I am, I tune them and try them, and play over on each of them in turn, with false notes galore, some catchy tuneAu clair de la lune or J'ai du bon tabac dans ma tabatièrestuff fit to kill the old cow.

Its name is against it and if the makers would take a tumble to themselves and call it "Mica Oil" or some catchy name and get it introduced among the users of tight gearing, they would sell just as much axle grease and all the grease for gearings.

The music, arranged by Mr. HERMAN DAREWSKI, is catchy and not uncomfortably original: and the scenery, designed by Captain BAIRNSFATHER, gives one, I should say, as good an idea of the trenches as one can get without going there.

" They swung off to the tune of a catchy American popular air.

The poor reporters can't help it; they are dismissed unless they worry people for interviews and write "catchy" articles about them, so, of course, they can't stick to the truth; and as the people who read like to hear something spicy, they are obliged to give it all a lurid turn.

The dressing of the windows of department stores and the writing of catchy advertisements are a constant recognition of the power of suggestion.

"Five hundred words with a catchy title; nothing funnythat's my linebut something solid and practical with money in it; the public's always ready for that.

Well, while Chippy was eating his fish the band struck up that catchy Jazz-stagger, "She's corns on her toes," and Chippy, his mouth full of fish, jumped up and began to dance.

Do we say   upbeat   or  catchy