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“Obsession” is a pulpy, prodigious summer hit that checks boxes without posing any new questions.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
Did you see “Conclave,” a pulpy entertainment that, because of its fancy trappings, seems smarter than it actually is?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
Thousands of insects beat the air to a pulpy soup of animal panic.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
Lin would also wholeheartedly embrace the pulpier aspects of Indiana Jones and could be counted on to deliver something fun and fast-paced.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2020
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
Now, à la John Banville/Benjamin Black, he has started writing in a pulpier and more diabolical vein, and “Breed” is just the first installment.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2012
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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