Attention
Attention noun - A focusing of the mind on something.
Blurb and attention are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Blurb" instead a noun "Attention".
Nearby Words: attentive, attentively
Blurb
Blurb noun - A promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books).
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Though the term confused some people, with even the cover blurb of the American edition getting it wrong, it's clear if you pay any attention that in the Harry Potter universe this means being indefinitely paralysed rather than actually being turned to stone like in many other cases.
Source: Taken for Granite - With Rivers of London the cover art is actually a pretty good display, although it does give away the entire plot if you pay close enough attention to it, but the blurb tries to make it out to be a Harry Potter clone despite having nothing to do with those books either in subject matter or themes.
Source: Covers Always Lie / Literature
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