potboiler in English

noun
1
a book, painting, or recording produced merely to make the writer or artist a living by catering to popular taste.
They may as well have called it deep six, because the film plummeted into a predictable pastiche of previous potboilers .

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1. This is just another legal potboiler.

2. Her most recent potboiler was one of last year's bestselling paperbacks.

3. The author of a good novel wouldn't complain that readers were unfair for preferring a potboiler with a racy cover.

4. The story of the Unabomber crackles with the raw mystery and tension of a cops-and-robbers potboiler.

5. The previous year, "The Green Berets," Wayne's jingoistic Vietnam potboiler, had divided audiences, been ridiculed by the press and shunned by the Oscars.

6. In literary circles this is known as created a potboiler, that is, something to make a little bit of money before the real prize is issued.

7. Crashed is a pleasurable outing, without the personal risk, to the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles, where moral ambiguity fills the air.” —Read Me Deadly (blog) "This detective potboiler with its oddball characters will keep you chuckling." —The Martha's Vineyard Times

8. The notorious though mild nude scene, and a spike in the plot temperature, as brash Jonas (George Peppard) does exposition and moral trespass with Carroll Baker in her first scene as Rina, his gold-digging ex who married his suddenly-deceased industrialist father for money, early in The Carpetbaggers, 1964, from the Harold Robbins potboiler.