puffery

1 It was clear but unspoken that this episode was to be promotional puffery in advance of “Rock of Love’s” third season.

2 Most mentions of Florida were mere puffery, with little indication of what DeSantis intends to accomplish.

3 At that point, with no national on-the-ground reporting to contradict him, he can use the three years of glowing puffery on the economy driven by the Wall Street–centric business press to make his case.

4 Mr. Lambert is also a writer and producer of the film, but “Phunny Business” goes beyond puffery and actually pokes a fair amount of fun at him.

5 Conventions are, above all, an exercise in promotion and puffery, with the intent of casting the best possible light on a party and its candidate for president.

6 All of the bot's sweet puffery keeps "Big Hero 6" afloat as it plows into the relatively typical terrain of superhero-villain battles fought with the fate of the world hanging by a thread.

7 Such puffery and falsehoods are then given even wider dissemination by journalists, even those in the debunking business.

8 How do we convince people that they should reject the meretricious puffery they find inspiring?

9 U.S. courts have effectively adopted a “puffery doctrine” that allows companies leeway to make sweeping statements.

10 Longtime supporters of Mr. Trump noted that he and some in his family tended to crave flattery, particularly in public settings, and they chalked up the “dynasty” remark from Mr. Parscale to puffery.

11 “That just sounds like puffery,” he said of those gilded alternatives.

12 District Court, for example, applied this thinking in a lawsuit against Ford Motor for failures of Firestone tires on its vehicles, ruling that certain broad proclamations — like “safety comes first” — were simple acts of puffery.

13 Using puffery to raise awareness of products is illegal.

使用鼓吹性广告来提升产品的知名度是不合法的。

14 “Becoming Steve Jobs,” which is by no means all puffery, calls this “the full, unfortunate blooming of Steve Jobs’s worst tendencies at Apple.”

15 His media image as "Lunch Bucket Joe" was a helpful mirage in corporate media-land, but that kind of puffery only went so far.

16 But the suggestion that there is just one worthy candidate is puffery that disrespects both of them.

17 She found no proof the alleged problems would materially hurt Papa John’s results, and said the company’s public statements about its culture were “immaterial puffery” and too general to support a securities fraud claim.

18 Some of these offer real added value, while others are skippable puffery.

19 The film was not a work of puffery; it also offered critical perspectives.

20 It's a bold claim, one that goes beyond mere puffery.

这项大胆的宣称已不仅仅是自我吹捧。

1 吹捧

rave exaltation tout puff flatter exalt aggrandize lay it on thick cracked up to be

2 吹嘘

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3 夸奖

puff applause applaud compliment admire magnify peal