There are, of course, multitudes of purported explanatory, epistemic virtues, including the incomplete list a couple paragraphs back (and lists of such have evolved over time).
Beyond that, she said, there were a couple of paragraphs of description and a photograph, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.
But at a meeting with a book publisher, I was tempted to capture a couple of paragraphs of a confidential document that I was allowed to look over, but not take with me.
But after a couple of paragraphs of ironic motivational talk, each chapter moves into a narrative mode: "you" are a poor village boy, first seen "huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold, dewy morning".
So in case you want to head for the exit now, I'm going to vamp for a couple of paragraphs of harmless generalities and evasive plot summary before getting specific.
In just a couple of paragraphs of explanation of the story behind that story she captures the drama of the event: "They knew we were British journalists, because we shouted in Serbo-Croat that we were, but it made them shoot even more.
To give some idea: several years ago the editor of a prestigious journal, Physical Review Letters, found it necessary to decree that at least the first couple of paragraphs of each published paper should be intelligible to an average Ph.D physicist not specializing in the subject of the paper.
For many objects, you get a couple of paragraphs of often fascinating text.
For some reason many companies today seem to be terrified of the prospect of writing more than a couple of paragraphs of clear and simple prose.
What Trump has to offer is just a couple of paragraphs of drivel, served up the way a D student might try to fudge a book report in front of his fourth-grade class.
