MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2010053409
003 DLC
005 20130313112959.0
008 101228s2011 cau bd 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010053409
020 $a9781573446600 (pbk.)
020 $a1573446602 (pbk.)
020 $z9781573446815 (ebk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn681499982
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050 00 $aPE1241$b.P56 2011
082 00 $a423/.1$222
100 1 $aPlotnik, Arthur.
245 10 $aBetter than great :$ba plenitudinous compendium of wallopingly fresh superlatives /$cby Arthur Plotnik.
246 30 $aPlenitudinous compendium of wallopingly fresh superlatives
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aBerkeley, Calif. :$bViva Editions,$cc2011.
300 $axxxv, 244 p. ;$c18 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-233) and index.
505 0 $aGreat: a tough word to beat -- Sublime: beyond the ken of critters -- Physically affecting: praise by hurts and tickles -- Mentally, emotionally, or spiritually affecting: powering the emotional missile -- Beautiful: untying the beauty-bound tongue -- Joy-giving: praise that keeps giving -- Large: it's all relative -- Exceptional: reserved for one of a kind -- Intense: stretched to the extreme -- Delicious: tastier than believable -- Trendy: fabulous on stilts -- Cool: when words coolide -- Wicked cool: a little bad -- ForcefuL: raw-knuckled, thermonuclear acclaim -- Challenging belief or expression: to believe or not to believe?.
520 $aDeft praise encourages others to feel as we do, share our enthusiasms. In this "age of awesome," our words and phrases of acclaim are exhausted, all but impotent. Arthur Plotnik is proffering a well knit wellspring of worthy and wondrous words to rescue our worn-down usage. --from publisher description
650 0 $aEnglish language$xAdjective$vDictionaries.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xUsage$vDictionaries.