Better than great
Subtitle: a plenitudinous compendium of wallopingly fresh superlatives
By: by Arthur Plotnik
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Viva Editions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781573446600; 9781573446815
Subjects: Adjective; Usage; Dictionaries; English language
Other titles: Plenitudinous compendium of wallopingly fresh superlatives
Description: Deft 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Great: a tough word to beat; title: Sublime: beyond the ken of critters; title: Physically affecting: praise by hurts and tickles; title: Mentally, emotionally, or spiritually affecting: powering the emotional missile; title: Beautiful: untying the beauty-bound tongue; title: Joy-giving: praise that keeps giving; title: Large: it's all relative; title: Exceptional: reserved for one of a kind; title: Intense: stretched to the extreme; title: Delicious: tastier than believable; title: Trendy: fabulous on stilts; title: Cool: when words coolide; title: Wicked cool: a little bad; title: ForcefuL: raw-knuckled, thermonuclear acclaim; title: Challenging belief or expression: to believe or not to believe?.