How To Use Potboiler In A Sentence
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Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
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The Rat Pack fanbase loves Some Came Running, from the James Jones potboiler, not just for its Sinatra-Dino-MacLaine dream cast, but for its delirious expressionism, especially in the hallucinatory final fairground sequence.
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Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
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That's pretty good for what some critics considered a mere "potboiler" or "tearjerker" -- but had it been just that, it wouldn't have had the impact that it had.
Thomas Gladysz: A Lost Girl, a Fake Diary, and a Forgotten Author
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Indian films are everywhere, and not just the potboilers.
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Here was an unserious, part-time author having it all and more for a potboiler!
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He could easily have checked his facts, but did not bother to because so far as he was concerned the Holmes stories were potboilers.
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Salil's tight-knit screenplay gives the film a racy pace and saves it from being reduced to the usual Swapan Saha potboiler which is almost impossible to sit through till the end.
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A make-belief potboiler, the film has grossed over a crore in a week.
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Are we to compete with the Western potboilers flooding the Indian market?
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Does that appreciation extend to the latest potboiler?
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The story of the Unabomber crackles with the raw mystery and tension of a cops-and-robbers potboiler.
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Meanwhile, his twin brother Donald is writing his own screenplay, a shameless potboiler that has no pretensions of art, but every intention of wealth.
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In literary circles this narrative might be termed a potboiler - a tale hastily conceived and executed with commercial profits foremost in mind.
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It's a fast paced film with a solid screenplay, a masala potboiler.
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On the table, by my bed, lay a book I had just started rereading, a potboiler to take my mind off the trials of my day.
FATAL FLAW
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Monet might have had to turn out potboilers but Degas, a man of independent means, never had to paint to pay for his supper.
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A version of the title episode from Fantasia (1940) doesn't appear in Jon Turteltaub's plodding potboiler until two-thirds of the way through, but by that point, so many other blockbusters have been plagiarized, I was surprised that (SPOILER!) the
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`A potboiler 's a term we use to describe an inferior work of art that's done purely for money.
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It topped the Publishers Weekly annual bestseller list that year and was turned into a Hollywood potboiler (starring Jean Simmons and Victor Mature) in 1954.
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Patel, known for playing the mushy girlfriend in romantic potboilers, said the complaint had been made by airline staff to save themselves.
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Is she publishing those stories, those potboilers about her love and madness?
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As for the story, it is a potboiler in the tradition of the best film noir.
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They may as well have called it deep six, because the film plummeted into a predictable pastiche of previous potboilers.
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The material from the two Faust treatments is perhaps less convincing, and Berlioz's arrangement of The Marseillaise at the end the disc is an unnecessary potboiler.
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Number 14 (Up Country, 2002, etc.) from the master of the parboiled potboiler, in which an intrepid cop single-handedly staves off Armageddon.
Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille: Book summary
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Already listed in his CV are such early potboilers as a novel linked to the New Avengers TV series.
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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.
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He learnt Italian in order to research the book, written in the style of a detective potboiler.
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It's instructive to see her as the aristocratic adventuress in the 18 th-century potboiler The Affair of the Necklace.
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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.
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Her most recent potboiler was one of last year's bestselling paperbacks.
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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
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All the forger had to do was find a potboiler dating back to the seventeenth century.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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As art, it was essentially a potboiler, refusing any commerce with physical or psychological detail.
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Most best-selling potboilers are likely to use the Freytag-derived narrative filtered through Hollywood melodrama.
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In a way it's wonderful--you are alone in your head with beautiful music in stereophonic glory--or you can listen to every breath William Faulkner makes as he reads from A Light in August my favorite Faulkner was his "potboiler," as he called it, Sanctuary; and the novel of his that first charmed me was Mosquitos.
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`Remember what Armand said about using the mount from an old potboiler to fool the radiocarbon dating?
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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The beach, by contrast, is intended as a comfortable spot to perch up and laze away with a potboiler.
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Thirdly, and not least importantly, the novel lives up to the advertisement of being a potboiler and not just another placid semi-documentary history of the Kashmir imbroglio.
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`The old potboiler could have been bought, or stolen, anywhere in the world at any time up to three, four years ago.
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A Darkover Retrospective tells the story of the writing of many of MZB's early Darkover books, and also tells the story of her writing career --- from writing stories for small amounts of money, as well as writing 'potboiler' gothics and even editing an astrology magazine to provide extra family income, from her gradual realization that she was in fact regarded by editors and readers as a 'real' writer, and that this was something she could make a career of.
A Darkover Retrospective: Marion Zimmer Bradley's writing beginnings
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Tom Clancy predicted this exact scenario in his 1991 potboiler The Sum of All Fears -- and it remains a perennial of public discussion.
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The covers are endlessly fascinating, especially the "potpourri" section. "potpourri" indeed, everything from William Burroughs to Frank Edwards to G. Harry Stine to endless historical potboilers and nurse novels.
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Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
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It is not one of the usual Bollywood masala potboilers; it is an Indian film with just the right amount of spice and garnish that emerges as a real treat.
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Fans of Douglas Sirk melodramas and other '50s potboilers are the best candidates for this kind of slick, earnestly soapy entertainment.
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Rose believed Crossfire was "much too important a picture to be advertised like a catchpenny potboiler," noting that on "18,000 screens it can do more good than a whole passel of tolerance societies with fancy names on the stationery.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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This could include selecting camera angles during a sportscast or directing alternative endings to a potboiler through video technology called ‘seamless branching.’
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There have been not one but two cinematic political potboilers to hit the silver screen in the past year.
