How To Use Blurb In A Sentence
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Blighty -- Britain; "'Bean' is one of the biggest hits to come out of Blighty." blurb -- TV commercial; "Ridley Scott started his career directing blurbs." boff (also boffo, boffola) -- outstanding (usually refers to box office performance); "'My Best Friend's Wedding' has been boffo at the B.O.
Variety.com
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The former Eurythmics singer has been nominated for the Barclays Woman of the Year Award, which according to the blurb is given each year to an exceptional woman whose personal and public life has been both brave and bold.
Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'
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So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.
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But to want to see the back of chick-lit because you've read too many blurbs that feature a single girl with too many shoes and a Martini habit is a bit like consigning pop music to the knackers' yard just because you don't like The X Factor.
Should we mourn the end of chick-lit?
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The blurb makes it all sound far more titillating than it probably is, but they're right about the leather and amyl though.
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Also accompanying the typescript is a small rectangular piece of paper upon which Leinster has evidently typed an advertisement blurb.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: Murray Leinster
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A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’
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Speaking of email glitches, one nearly kiboshed the lovely blurb Ken did for SECOND SHOT.
Hero Worship
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He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
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The address was seared on my memory --- 5 (a) Artemis Road --- I'd seen it on the estate agents ' blurb.
RESCUING ROSE
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So… you need a Famous Writer, or at a pinch, a Famous Reviewer (which is all too often an oxymoron) to produce the necessary burble for the blurb.
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When they observe volunteers doing something great, they snap photos and display them along with the volunteers' names and short blurbs about their volunteer ministry on a display board in the lobby.
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I did an approximation of the focus/genre of the novels from what I could glean from the brief blurbs, and came up with this:
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Mendocino Conference fires up my interest in YA
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So mostly they don't get read and mostly they don't get blurbed.
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I just mosaiced a bike and I thought it would fit in with this little blurb!
Moore bikes, please | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog
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Yes, I heard it's very good and in fact they sent it to me to blurb but I was doing something…
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Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology.
Archive 2008-03-01
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But the blurb says its author believes his fellow countrymen were once ‘polite, unexcitable, reserved and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex life’.
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We all know how book blurbs and theatre notices can, by careful editing, turn critical comments into a rave review.
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The ellipsis indicates that a piece of additional supporting material has been removed from the main DVD blurb, leaving us with a truncated summary of the original concept.
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However, the publicity blurb does make clear that Malaysia has three pin electric plugs at 240 volts which is more than Thailand can claim.
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Here's a blurb about a new book about Polari on Amazon:
Sonos
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Getting my booked "blurbed" by an author never crossed my mind when I started out.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Gelett Burgess (1866 – 1951) coined both blurb and tintiddle, though blurb is sometimes attributed to Brander Matthews.
April « 2009 « Sentence first
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The blurb says that this is Tarantino's greatest movie.
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Reading the blurb, it seems to be all about fields and trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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My cohort in skulduggery Jesse just (and when I say just I mean four or five days ago) posted a nice blurb on the strange and stupid phenomenon of using “gay” as an adjective to describe things other than a person who is a homosexual.
That’s so. . . « paper fruit
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As I read the opening blurb, which is light-hearted and upbeat, my sense of shame subsided and I decided to take the plunge.
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I’ve noticed that Coetzee is blurbing a lot more now than ever before … perhaps Australia is agreeing with him. vitor oliveira jorge Says:
J.M Coetzee Deconstructed
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We all know how book blurbs and theatre notices can, by careful editing, turn critical comments into a rave review.
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Great covers make me look twice and if the blurb is interesting I'll buy the book!
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 2 days to go!
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I mean, a critic has to have an agenda to take the people who blurbed the book to task: they were all sentenced by him to ‘perdition eternal.’
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Indian, not Native American, is how his book blurbs describe him: in one short story in this collection a character dryly observes that ‘Native American’ is an oxymoron.
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You can read the blurb, and if it interests you, dive deeper into the story.
The Sun
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'Look for a delicate froth of fine bubbles,' quoth the blurb.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were both kind enough to blurb the first book.
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If he has got a way with words, he might want to think about firing the person writing his promotional blurbs and doing it himself.
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The notion of plenitude can be conveyed by employing the term panorama ` an unlimited view in all directions 'in a promotional blurb.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
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Or do you interpret it as more twisted and ironic, a bitter medley of weather criticism, tourist blurb, and the locals' proud assertions?
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And then there is the GloFish, a genetically modified fluorescent zebrafish that, according to its sales blurb, would grace any aquarium and comes in three "striking colours"? starfire red, electric green and sunburst orange.
GM food battle moves to fish as super-salmon nears US approval
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A blurb is kind of the best and worst of a situation don't ya think?
Angels' Blood Countdown: Vivi Anna - The Vampire's Quest
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Complex measures can not readily be turned into simply stated, understandable ballot blurbs.
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That this is the volume's main thrust is not apparent from the dust-jacket description or laudatory blurbs from colleagues.
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Each jury panel selected three finalists, then composed a short blurb about each.
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Steig's Dominic is a long time favorite and I hope lots of people see Martha's blurb and run right out to get it for a road trip.
New Notes
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The blurb goes on to say it will help treat conditions from eczema to brain tumours.
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Here's a bit of the back-cover blurb from William Gibson: It's like watching Sergio Leone and Clive Barker codirect from a script by Jim Thompson and S.
Archive 2009-09-13
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According to the blurb, the Iris 50 Compass is the ‘definitive night navigator.’
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While I'm here, does anyone actually read the descriptive blurb on the back of dvds?
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On the back cover of this Davenport collection I came across the term "pataphysics" * for the first time, in a blurb describing Davenport as one of the world's foremost pataphysicians.
Archive 2008-08-01
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She hadn't notice the pair of dark eyes gazing at her as she meandered up the aisle occasionally picking up a book and reading the blurb.
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Complex measures can not readily be turned into simply stated, understandable ballot blurbs.
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Or so the blurb says.
Times, Sunday Times
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I went with an open mind, having read the blurb about it being a non-sexual show with full-frontal male nudity.
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It is in the interest of the mystery of the guild to banish criticism altogether, and they have pretty much succeeded, reducing criticism to glowing, one hundred percent positive 700-1,200-word blurbs masquerading as reviews in the back pages of literary quarterlies, when they are allowed in at all.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
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The most generic blurb about media art is that boredom dumbs down while entertainment enlightens.
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Published last year, this 172-page book carries an approving blurb from the dean of the Kellogg School of Management.
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A good friend of mine who was also my publisher at one time, wrote on the blurb of my book that my stories were about women's lives.
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I'm already overcommitted with books I've agreed to read and blurb and introductions I've agreed to write going back some years.
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the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book
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I seem to have an infallible knack for having something in my blurbs go wrong.
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In blurbs of press in newspapers and magazines, you'll inevitably find the words ‘Canadian indie-pop supergroup,’ usually in the header.
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Richard Perle glowingly blurbed the book as “splendid and wholly convincing.”
The Longest War
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According to the official blurb, it means more consistent and comfortable shifting with improved performance and fuel economy.
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My heart rather sank when I saw the blurb for this book.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nature is a kind of poetry for him; an Ecosphere is a book jacket blurb about the real thing.
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I posted it anonymously because I also wrote a blurb for the book, and I didn't want to look as if I was piling on.
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Oh, and when you reach the website, read the promotional blurb.
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When the crowds arrive next weekend, this room will be exactly what it says in the blurb: madcap.
Times, Sunday Times
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I find it fairly easy to blog while writing film scripts, articles, introductions, blurbs and short stories.
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The marketplace appeared to take in stride headlines which blurb lender CIT Group Inc. filed for failure protection upon Sunday after a debt-exchange suggest to bondholders failed.
Stocks rise ahead of economic data, after Ford posts profit; CIT ...
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For details about the book visit blurb.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Actually, I object to putting a blurb on the cover of any collective work; if blurbs belong anywhere for multiauthor works, it's the back or on endpapers.
Book Cover Smackdown! 'Template' vs. 'Metatropolis' vs. 'The Skylark'
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I normally do not precede my reviews with quotes from other critics, but I find that this blurb is particularly sharp and well founded.
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The back label has a little blurb about the winery and its philosophy.
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The blurb says that it's now ten years since the last episode aired.
Times, Sunday Times
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They write the elements most readers read first: headlines, cutlines, blurbs.
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The quadrumvirate of men who provide blurbs for Kirby's fifth collection, read like a who's who of the book's poetic influences.
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One addition to the shortlist combines rarity value - this blurbist seldom blurbs - with quality.
The Times Literary Supplement
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His reviews have been "blurbed" far less than those of other critics, he said.
Undefined
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If the message board allows it, you can even include a short promotional blurb about your site at the end of your posts.
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The blurbist who claims that A Hundred Doors demonstrates "remarkable powers of reinvention" is teasing us, though.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Maybe if he blurbed my book it wouldn't be considered Chick Lit anymore.
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The blurb says: 'Generally one day is spent reading and the next walking.
Times, Sunday Times
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Abramoff, who might as well add the phrase "disgraced superlobbyist" to his legal name, has written a tome that promises to be, according to a publisher's blurb, a "corrective" account of his much-chronicled scandal, our colleague
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
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April 28th, 2006 at 5: 32 pm katy says: thanks for that neil young story, stupid r. – have been waiting to hear about that release – surely it will be on itunes? but, in the future, a short blurb and the link would be a better idea than pasting the whole thing – it tands to unnerve some people, myself included … but this old hippy is anxious to hear neil rant again … thanks!
Think Progress » Contrary To Administration Predictions, Iraq War Contributing To High Oil Prices
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By the same token, such attention traps reduce any accompanying blurbs to simplifying catchphrases, slogans of common sense.
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It contains, the blurb tells us, filthy language and immoral behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would I read the title differently without knowing what I know of the author, without bracing myself for the abject when I hear Kathy Acker cited as influence on a blurb on the book cover?
Katherine Parrish reads Lisa Foad
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I have chosen Eric Newby's "Slowly Down the Ganges" rather than his justly acclaimed "A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" blurbed by E.
Five Best: Larry McMurtry
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The blurb says that this is Tarantino's greatest movie.
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They blurb books, explain pop culture phenomena and offer unsolicited counsel to celebrities in crisis.
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According to the blurb, a meteorite has hit the planet, causing it to stop rotating around its own axis.
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The quick blurb goes something like this: Ten seemingly random women are thrown together by one thring throughout the course of a day, trouble.
Filmstalker: Women in Trouble trailer online
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Here's the blurb from the Who is Jenna Fox website:
Archive 2009-07-01
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Dylan Hicks began previewing M-SPIFF films a couple of weeks ago and managed to watch 30 movies in 9 days; whether or not his journal is as useful as the usual alt-weekly mound of blurbs is debatable, but it is more fun.
GreenCine Daily: City Pages. M-SPIFF.
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I could image the blurb he would have already written about her powers of observation.
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It's no coincidence (though Coupland's novels are sprinkled with them) that of all the writers who could be drafted in to make a back-patting comment for the blurb, Tom Wolfe is on the newie.
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I'll write a nice blurb for his book first, though.
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Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum gives us his blurb: Suggesting at different moments a backstage musical, a failed love story, a surreal comedy, and even a cartoon fantasy, this beautiful, corrosive, visionary masterpiece by Jia Zhang-ke is a frighteningly persuasive account of the current state of the planet.
MILF:04 The World
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Or does she just read the blurb on the bottle?
Times, Sunday Times
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The writing is lively and fun to read; you can actually picture the film freaks foaming at the mouths as they wrote their film blurbs!
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Here's the blurb (follow the link to read an excerpt): Injured Blood Hunter Navarre is kidnapped along with oil heiress Marissa Vasquez.
Angels' Blood Countdown: Jennifer St Giles - Kiss of Darkness/Bride of the Wolf ARCs
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No writer has excoriated the thirst for fame with more vigor in recent years - and yet here we have an actor (whom you lovingly pimped years ago in the magazine) blurbing your book.
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Plus, any guilt you might have about promoting rampant commercialism is minimized if you remind yourself that a portion of proceeds from every copy will be donated to Save the Children." (from the blurb at UrbanBaby. com)
Books for Unfit Mothers
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It was only after reading the blurb that I realised there was a storyline.
Times, Sunday Times
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The problem with this situation is exactly what I just so cleverly alluded to - people who really don't have much to offer as far as opinions go attempt to pass off their ill-informed extended blurbs as gospel truth.
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As I read the opening blurb, which is light-hearted and upbeat, my sense of shame subsided and I decided to take the plunge.
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When the same sentence is reproduced verbatim in the blurb, one feels that the book will be long on rhapsodies and short on substance.
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YET ANOTHER endless, mind-numbing forty-seven page long blurb from victoria, who day in and day out thinks her uppity, doctorly opinions are welcome, relavant, superior, not coma-inducing...
"Anna Nicole Smith embodied America... its overabundance; its exploitability, and its propensity to exploit."
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When I finally sold it, she sent me a huge bunch of flowers and not only gave it a jacket blurb but brought me several other people who blurbed.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Author Stephanie Cowell Chats About Claude and Camille and Her Next Historical Novel
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One of this novel's admirers blurbed it thusly: "Think Carl Hiaasen taking on John le Carre.
Patrick Anderson reviews Keith Thomson's 'Twice a Spy'
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But this one had a blurb from the editor of ERB-dom.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
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I'm interested in views on everything ranging from strategic visioning to next generation commercial blurb.
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# Build classpath with all jars in the lib directory for jar in lib/*. jar do classpath = \$classpath: \$jar done java - Xincgc - ea - Xms256m - Xmx1024m - classpath \$classpath com. blurb.booksmart.application.
Sun Bloggers
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The blurb almost might as well say "the droppings contain a chemical called dihydrogen monoxide".
Beauty secret: nightingale droppings.
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During that press call, Chernin blurbed: "This will be the largest advertising platform on earth.
Boing Boing
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The great author blurbed this as a ‘most amusing little book’ that ‘is far more than that’: ‘While it makes us laugh it exposes with uncanny insight many of our secret wishes and unexpressed desires.’
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This is the natural headspace for a pop critic who has made the jump to the bookshelf from the blurb-littered world of book, CD and film reviews in glossy magazines.
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I'm sure it takes a monstrous ego to be a White House speechwriter, but do these guys really believe their own promotional blurbs?
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If there's anything more fun than taking apart a workshop poem, it's to read the blurbs poets are sometimes expected to extemporize, to justify/apologize for/self-deprecatingly praise/preemptively neuter their own poetry.
Anis Shivani: America's Most Prominent Emerging Poets Respond to the Obama Administration
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The cost of taking part in these schemes is always mysteriously absent from the initial marketing blurb.
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Blurb bathos is a killer, because it’s actually really fun and easy to be blurb bathetic in the same way it’s fun and easy to write a bathetic poem.
About Reviews : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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The blurb described the book as a private detective's journey through personal betrayal to a form of redemption.
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Among the new poems in his new book is one so good that the publisher has put it on the back of the hardcover edition, instead of blurbs and encomia.
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Okay -- so we listened to the book on CD coming back from New Orleans and now the kid is reading it, and she took the bookjacket off, as she always does we have an old hardcopy bought out of some used bookstore somewhere and she was reading the blurbs on the back.
Book Review -- Sort Of
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It's commandable that you don't want "to spoil the cover image with any other blurb", but I wouldn't mind to do an exception by putting the names Gerry Embleton and Willie Patterson somewhere in there.
Comic Cuts
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Careful readers will notice that, in the middle of the review, there is a lovely, entirely positive sentence, suitable for back-cover blurbing!
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Cory emailed it over last night for me to read and provide a cover blurb.
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The blurb describes it as an ‘altogether morally confused piece of work’.
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I've described the story to other people as my IRA/Samson story, but a niftier blurb might go like this: What would it be like to know that God is absolutely * not* on your side?
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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He glowingly blurbed the book as ‘splendid and wholly convincing’.
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Lots and lots and lots of requests coming in for me to read and blurb people's books, or write introductions to things, to all of which at present the answer has to be no.
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My prize goes to whoever wrote the ridiculously inflated press blurb.
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And while many fans read the short blurb as a shock, others saw this coming as clearly as a run-in chair shot.
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Barth's blurb is dutifully included on the back cover of Michael Martone, an example of this book's playful charm but also clear enough warning that we should indeed take the blurb as a formulaic "genre" that ought not to be taken seriously as literary criticism.
Writing and Publishing
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Your headline for this little blurb is misleading and bad reporting.
Clinton: Vetting process for administration jobs 'a nightmare'
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As opposed to that on the magazine cover and the music as a blurb.
The Sun
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Sadly no preview DVDs were available for this programme, but the publicity blurb was a great consolation.
Times, Sunday Times
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These blurbs seem to be another example of a first principle of backscratching: The Less They Need It, The More They Do It. After a series of bestsellers and a movie of his Tuesdays With Morrie, why does Mitch Albom need blurbs?
2009 October 09 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Your short little blurbs regarding faith based social services in Texas are reminiscent of the sound-bites we get from most mainstream media.
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Design writing includes journalism, commentary, criticism, both popular and academic - it is practiced as essay, reportage, commentary, blurb, and now blog post.
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I'm just trying to get one more back cover blurb to assure bestseller status.
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I have been asked to blurb it, and I am recommending it now to all of you.
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Neither of the big words in Buckley's headline fits the situation elegantly or enlarges the reader's understanding of his message; in fact "lapidary" is something of a cliche in high-tone book blurbing and "not eristic" makes a blatantly disingenuous claim.
"I Am Lapidary But Not Eristic When I Use Big Words."
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Cool, urban Alec Baldwin has decided to go and chat to his mates about stuff; "the chatshow guest turns host", quoth the blurb.
Rewind radio: What Has Religion Done for Women?; Here's the Thing; Warhorses of Letters; Tonight; Ramblings – review
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The blurb says it tests powers of logic and elimination.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was, in fact, discussion about such a note but however it was worded it sounded more like a promotional blurb than a serious warning.
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Wasps really like the smell, said the blurb.
Times, Sunday Times
