blurb

1 When it was issued in book form as “Picture,” Hemingway offered a book-jacket blurb, calling it “much better than most novels.”

2 The bags feature the chef’s face and a blurb that describes Spanish potatoes, extra-virgin olive oil from Andalucia and Himalayan pink salt.

3 As the blurb on Vaunte dictates, “You must have amazing style.”

4 Nina George’s international bestseller “The Little Paris Bookshop” looks like a triumph of the confectioner’s art: pink, glossy, garlanded with icing rosettes in the form of admiring blurbs from readers and authors.

5 The book’s blurb suggests it focuses on Steven Donziger, the campaigning US lawyer who initially won the case at Ecuador’s highest court, rather than the pollution itself and its consequences.

6 Wood, in his blurb, called it a “spirited account of the Revolution that brings everybody and everything into the story.”

7 Don Winslow called it “a ‘Grapes of Wrath’ for our time,” which is ludicrous but hardly out of bounds in the make-believe realm of blurbs.

8 Sheehy and Scott both single out Parker’s humor in the way he bundled certain projects and wrote puckish blurbs for brochures.

9 When the parcel arrived, containing, according to the blurb, something by "one of our finest science writers", promising to blend "science, art, literature, the everyday" – well, to me, that sounded like Christmas had arrived early.

10 I didn’t understand how Fred’s death could be reduced to a blurb.

11 “This is what reading is about, and what a good book is supposed to do,” the mystery writer Sue Grafton writes in a blurb for the novel, Mr. King’s fourth attempt at fiction.

12 That blurb is now featured on the book's cover.

13 Fashion blurbs, silver and full of nothing, sent up their fishy bubbles in my brain.

14 His “Master Blaster” blurb was the meanest tease of all, judging by the crowd’s disappointed reaction when he, well, blew it up.

15 But the bottom line is that this is how America administers the law when a human life is at stake.The blurb calls Stafford Smith a "true hero", and he probably is.

16 The blurb for his new books says he has made philosophy relevant for a whole generation of politically committed readers.

17 A week earlier, a blurb in the local paper of the small, picturesque town of Damariscotta, Maine announced the event: “Lively discussion with cake.” it read.

18 This volume was given a blurb by Christopher Hitchens a few days before he died.

19 They'll be quoted, parsed, fact-checked, eviscerated by those who disagree, and then forgotten in the wake of new blurbs that come out tomorrow.

20 These shows won’t materialize for a while, so there are only news releases, checklists of works and short blurbs about the artists to go by.

1 简介

prospectus orientation brief snapshot intro profile

2 吹捧

boost fuss praise extol extoll rave puff raving carney roose belaud stroke glorify aggrandize aggrandise

3 吹捧者

praise extoller