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It doesn’t look particularly good, but for a pulpy, propulsive action series, it may have potential.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
Snake is a wonderfully pulpy, instantly iconic creation, an outcast adventurer reeking of sweat and post-Vietnam cynicism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Perhaps I’m underestimating “Disclaimer,” Alfonso Cuarón’s pulpy psychological thriller.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
But this is proper Serena van der Woodsen stuff, the kind of pulpy insanity that Lively cut her teeth on.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
She leaned so close to the paper that the tip of her nose nearly touched it, and she inhaled its pulpy odor.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
If the tone in this 1950s-set romantic drama is more genteel than in the Hitchcockian, far pulpier “Eileen,” they have many similarities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
“Melodrama” bristles with pulpy romance and pulpier romantic disaster, rendered by a performer not content with the usual language they inspire.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017
Room did that expertly, but The Family is pulpier.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2016
He likes to experiment with writing styles and readers may have to pause and think more than they do with pulpier fare.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2016
Hard-rinded himself, but not without a generous juice within, he would have found it hard to believe that pulpier fruits existed, with a stone inside he would but crack his teeth upon.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
This textured NYC thriller has the pulpiest of set-ups: a young Chinese girl is lost and alone on the streets, pursued by the Triads and crooked cops.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2019
But “Battlefield Earth” is also an incredibly exciting book, pulp of the pulpiest order.
From Salon ● May 24, 2012
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