The literary criticism typical of the 1960s and 1970s was boosterish, preoccupied with asserting claims about the quality of particular works. |
The point of the boosterish guide was to convince American consumers of the delectableness of fish like the wolffish, an enormous creature with a bulbous head, big teeth, and an eel-like body. |
A third problem facing the writers of corporate biography is how to avoid sounding boosterish when a company turns out to be every bit as good as sometimes even better than the image it likes to project. |
That was a typically boosterish Japanese newswire headline on December 29th 1989, the day that one of the world's biggest ever asset-price bubbles reached bursting point. |
Nonetheless, he thinks Fraunhofer's self-portrayal, while perhaps a bit boosterish, is essentially accurate. |
Perhaps the brash and celebratory character of Pop art was seen as an even more boosterish symbol of American culture than Abstract Expressionism. |