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Unlike comic-derived live-action movies, those CG-augmented behemoths that currently rule the box office, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” embraces and enhances the pulpiness of its source material and brings those pulpy pages to hyperactive life.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2018

But if it leans toward didactic overstatement and soap opera pulpiness, “Tamara” also delivers a surprising, intricately shaded portrait of an artist as a conflicted woman.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2018

Some of his stories from these years have the baroque pulpiness of Elmore Leonard plots.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2018

A great action filmmaker like Kathryn Bigelow would have embraced the pulpiness at the heart of this tale rather than snobbishly trying to obscure it.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2016

Pulpiness -- N. pulpiness &c. adj.; pulp, taste, dough, curd, pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume†. mush, oatmeal, baby food.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark