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  • adjective comparative form of pulpy: more pulpy

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Examples

  • Miller's Crossing, No Country is the first official literary adaptation realized by the filmmakers), Joel Coen noted that the book was "pulpier" than anything they'd read by McCarthy before … "and then, it wasn't."

    In The Company Of Glenn 2009

  • On the pulpier side of things, Jeff Crook has recently launched a blog/site called the Sorcerer's Guild, the centerpiece of which is a new S&S-oriented award called the Harper's Pen Award.

    MIND MELD: The Best Sword & Sorcery Stories 2010

  • Liviu's short takeThe third book in the extremely entertaining Ryria was a page turner like the first two but also a step back at least in the first half which was very imbalanced; Avempartha took the series to a higher level, this one reverted to a fun but pulpier read.

    "Nyphron Rising" by Michael Sullivan (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman and Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • But in 1940 he did have a few pulpier tales like these six in Astonishing Stories.

    The Pulpy Isaac Asimov Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • I must confess to having a certain nostalgia for the older, pulpier paper stock of yore, but I have to admit, this kind of light effect was simply not possible on it.

    Archive 2009-07-26 2009

  • It's set quite a bit later, between the World Wars, and is appropriately much pulpier in tone.

    Archive 2009-04-26 2009

  • What was it like shifting gears from pulpier fare like Black Forest, Wicked West, and Faceless to this relatively subdued, more mainstreamish brand of horror?

    Archive 2009-02-22 2009

  • It’s the pulpier aspects that make the novel interesting IMHO.

    Variety on “The Straw Men” « Structure Geek 2008

  • Pulp does not get much pulpier than that, friends.

    Are You a Literary Snob? 2006

  • A 'run' is just something pretty natural for the pulpier things in life, and in comics that's detectives and superheroes..

    Top 100 Comic Book Runs #55-51 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

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