| In books, there's a perilously thin line, as they used to say on Broadway, between a socko and a floperoo. |
| For a socko emphasis, you can choose a large-scale pattern, that is warm, dark or bright in color and has bold contrasts. |
| In early views, the gawky Tribune Building presents a lonesome air, its socko red, black and white isolated from the low brownstone classicism of its neighbors. |
| One way or another, get ready for a socko ending. |
| A socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the Orson Welles 1938 radio interpretation... it's sock entertainment of hackle-raising quality. |
| The Beatles, who played in clubs long before they released their first single, knew that songs with a climax, a point, a socko finish, were guaranteed audience-goosers. |
