Eksempler på hype

• The propagation of the devil-at-the-crossroads myth serves a greater purpose than simply ' hyping up' or trumpeting the skill and virtuosity of the performer.

• Such summits tend to be excessively hyped up – they produce high levels of expectation but furnish quite meagre results.

• The hyping up of expectations ahead of the general election is written down here, but manifestly has not been undertaken in practice.

• We are under no illusion about why the debate was hyped up, as it was before the holidays.

• A successful direct marketing campaign, hyped by over-bonusing, attracted a large number of new policyholders and an increasing flow of contributions from existing members.

• The newspapers also bear a responsibility for hyping the scares.

• The single market has not given us the benefit or economic advantage that was claimed for it, yet we keep hyping it up.

• Spectators walking around in the streets are not necessarily causing an offence because they are encouraging themselves on and getting hyped up.