potboiler

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• The beach, by contrast, is intended as a comfortable spot to perch up and laze away with a potboiler.
• Already listed in his CV are such early potboilers as a novel linked to the New Avengers TV series.
• Blu-ray, 20th Century FoxKate Winslet takes on the role made famous by Joan Crawford in HBO's mini-series adaptation of James M Cain's potboiler. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray
• He learnt Italian in order to research the book, written in the style of a detective potboiler.
• It's instructive to see her as the aristocratic adventuress in the 18 th-century potboiler The Affair of the Necklace.
• Their first case, a home invasion rape-murder that uncovers a series of pattern crimes with an unlikely prime suspect, features a strong guest performance by White Collar's Tim DeKay as a grieving widower but otherwise seems indistinguishable from a sordid Special Victims Unit potboiler. Roush Review: A LOLA Makeover
• Her most recent potboiler was one of last year's bestselling paperbacks.
• The contest in every good man's heart to-day between the "ought to" and the "must," between his best work and the "potboiler," is his personal share of this incessant struggle between social interest and self-interest. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
• All the forger had to do was find a potboiler dating back to the seventeenth century. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
• As art, it was essentially a potboiler, refusing any commerce with physical or psychological detail.