It seems clear to me that on his own Lucas is unable to temper his pulpiness. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates, Robots And Bull Whips: The Swashbucklin' George Lucas] Reference
Once you accept the artifice, you can enjoy the pulpiness and overheated sexuality. From Wordnik.com. [Top 10 Overlooked Movies of the Last Five Years » Scene-Stealers] Reference
Ah, it's not as cool as it sounds, I'm sorry to say, but it does maintain the pulpiness right through. From Wordnik.com. [SON OF THE WEREWOLF by Guy N. Smith (New English Library 1978)] Reference
Just know that the story doesn't deliver on any of it, and doesn't even approach the level of pulpiness it promises. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-08] Reference
It meant overcoming the intelligent person's resistance to the pulpiness, the corniness, and the general moral and aesthetic schmaltz of Hollywood movies, but without refining those things away by some type of critical alchemy. From Wordnik.com. [Finding It at the Movies] Reference
The fleshiness or pulpiness of the roots is still more variable. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
His finished screenplay has the feel of authentic Thompsonian pulpiness. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematical] Reference
All their exquisite toil to mock the pulpiness of sentient substance had left no trace; had been brought to nought by the breath of the furnace. From Wordnik.com. [Some Chinese Ghosts] Reference
That's because unlike The Dark Knight, which elevated its characters beyond their core comics mythos, Watchmen ecstatically revels in its genre's lurid pulpiness. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Sun] Reference
The first class comprises those where the burn is altogether superficial, and merely reddens the skin; the second, where the injury is greater, and we get little bladders containing a fluid (called serum) dotted over the affected part; in the third class we get, in the case of burns, a charring, and in that of scalds, a softening or pulpiness, perhaps a complete and immediate separation of the part. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
But the doctor was much the more respectable-looking man of the two; his baldness was more intellectual and benevolent; there was a delicacy and propriety in the pulpiness of his fat white chin, a bland bagginess in his unwhiskered cheeks, a reverent roughness about his eyebrows and a fullness in his lower eyelids, which raised him far higher, physiognomically speaking, in the social scale, than my old prison acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [A Rogue's Life] Reference
Von Sydow’s over-the-top caricature of Ming the Merciless fits the source pulpiness perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [The Craziest Heads of Man-Hair in Science Fiction] Reference
Others like the natural pulpiness. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
Metaphysicians have carried the distinction further: apples, they say, may have not only the same outward shape, but the same inward constitution, which, therefore, may be called the Form of apple-stuff itself -- namely, a certain pulpiness, juiciness, sweetness, etc.; qualities common to all dessert apples: yet their Matter is different, one being here, another there -- differing in place or time, if in nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
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