A book, film, or other creative work produced solely to make the originator 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.’
‘As art, it was essentially a potboiler, refusing any commerce with physical or psychological detail.’
‘A make-belief potboiler, the film has grossed over a crore in a week.’
‘Already listed in his CV are such early potboilers as a novel linked to the New Avengers TV series.’
‘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.’
‘It's a fast paced film with a solid screenplay, a masala potboiler.’
‘As for the story, it is a potboiler in the tradition of the best film noir.’
‘Meanwhile, his twin brother Donald is writing his own screenplay, a shameless potboiler that has no pretensions of art, but every intention of wealth.’
‘Patel, known for playing the mushy girlfriend in romantic potboilers, said the complaint had been made by airline staff to save themselves.’
‘He could easily have checked his facts, but did not bother to because so far as he was concerned the Holmes stories were potboilers.’
‘Is she publishing those stories, those potboilers about her love and madness?’
‘Monet might have had to turn out potboilers but Degas, a man of independent means, never had to paint to pay for his supper.’
‘Indian films are everywhere, and not just the potboilers.’
‘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.’
‘He learnt Italian in order to research the book, written in the style of a detective potboiler.’
‘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.’
‘Here was an unserious, part-time author having it all and more for a potboiler!’
‘There have been not one but two cinematic political potboilers to hit the silver screen in the past year.’
‘Are we to compete with the Western potboilers flooding the Indian market?’
‘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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