In literary circles this narrative might be termed a potboiler - a tale hastily conceived and executed with commercial profits foremost in mind. From Wordnik.com. [On Frozen Blog] Reference
A compelling potboiler has been achieved by their wit. From Wordnik.com. [Gordy Grundy: The Next Cable Series Pitch: Freeman and Lowe] Reference
I liked Identity Crisis as the throwaway potboiler it was. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-26] Reference
Also look for some potboiler plotlines to plague the show's parents. From Wordnik.com. [Desperate Housewives: More Drama and More Fun] Reference
Is this a tragicomedy, a potboiler or a finely layered literary novel?. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT LIES BENEATH] Reference
Stone's charming potboiler has been falsely elevated by wishful hindsight. From Wordnik.com. [Setting the Record Straight About Ed Stone and Brad Cloepfil] Reference
Even veteran narrator George Guidall can't breathe life into this potboiler. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Alderman: Comedic King Lear and Jack Bauer Clone - Audiobook Reviews] Reference
His earlier autobiography, Move That Mountain (1976), was a ghostwritten potboiler. From Wordnik.com. [How He Lost It] Reference
It seemed like a life-imitates-art reenactment of the 1959 potboiler, Advice and Consent. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: When Joe Scarborough Dragged Dick Armey Out of a Closet of Shame] Reference
To be fair, Told in Silence isn't sure if it's a potboiler or a literary character piece. From Wordnik.com. [Thrillers] Reference
John Sandford is one of the busiest and most popular practitioners of the airport potboiler. From Wordnik.com. [Book review of John Sandford's "Storm Prey"] Reference
I was in the final throes of a furious potboiler called Mahalah when Holmes came into the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
It's officially summer, so it must be time for another frenetic archaeological thriller/potboiler. From Wordnik.com. [Guilty Pleasures] Reference
My paralegal keeps giving me Follett books, thinking that I'll get into the potboiler fiction scene. From Wordnik.com. [Bullet In the Brain] Reference
A few days later a friend noticed the First Lady was reading Rosamunde Pilcher's potboiler "September.". From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Bush: The Steel Behind The Smile] Reference
A top-notch example of a forgotten genre, this star-studded potboiler is wonderful adult entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Mendelson: Better Late Than Never: The Best Movies of 2009] Reference
Still, there are worse ways to spend an hour and a half: there's a terrific cast, and it's a decent potboiler. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Remington: Boiling Point: A Slightly Enjoyable Cop Drama from Wesley Snipes and Dennis Hopper] Reference
Farrar does a workmanlike job of bringing the characters, setting, and story to life in a fun occult potboiler. From Wordnik.com. [WITCHFINDER: MARK OF THE BEAST by Brian Ball (Mayflower 1976)] Reference
However, there are those-including its author-who believe it's a great moral tract dressed up as an old potboiler. From Wordnik.com. [Epic Theatre Travels Into Past, Present and Future] Reference
What a great potboiler -- and apparently true for the company that pioneered the African-American hair-care industry. From Wordnik.com. [So Much For Family Ties] Reference
In any event, if anybody could write a real history of this thing, this has been a potboiler of a thing for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with James P. Coleman, September 5, 1990. Interview A-0338. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
"It contains heightened, pseudo-classical, Shakespeare-ish language, yet it's a plot-driven potboiler," Mr. Coles told us. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Day Week] Reference
Somewhere inside this misty, moody movie, buried under snowbanks of gratuitous style, there's a potboiler screaming to get out. From Wordnik.com. [A Blue Christmas] Reference
If not written in the breathless style favored by the summer potboiler crowd, it is a compelling and illuminating read nonetheless. From Wordnik.com. [Beware Bernie Madoff Books] Reference
Read as fiction, Jessica Cutler's book barely stands up to potboiler erotica; it's only interesting insofar as it resembles a memoir. From Wordnik.com. [Steamy Summer on Capitol Hill: Interns Blog Their Brains Out] Reference
And unpredictable life, Mr. Greenberg appears to be saying, thus becomes as predictable as the usual commercial potboiler on Broadway. From Wordnik.com. [Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Who's the Most Predictable of All] Reference
The private investigator who helped track Florence down, like a pulp-fiction detective out of the pages of a '30s potboiler was there. From Wordnik.com. [Lily Koppel: The Movie in My Mind: A 75-year-old Red Leather Diary Goes on Book Tour and the Party of a Lifetime] Reference
Marriage didn't settle him down (he stayed on the move and wound up his potboiler of a life in Samoa), but he did settle down to write. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies Abounding] Reference
Nevermind that it won the Oscar; that's a distraction - after all, even Silence of the Lambs won the Oscar, and it was a pure potboiler. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Miley: The Coen Brothers' Mean Streak] Reference
He was going after a bold neo-Expressionist view of Priestley's beloved old potboiler, and whether he truly succeeded is another question. From Wordnik.com. [A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing?] Reference
I love two of Respighi's operas: La Fiamma has a great potboiler plot and juicy roles for verismo-friendly tenor, soprano and mezzo voices. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor, Operatic Edition] Reference
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