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- adjective
comparative form ofpulpy : morepulpy
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Examples
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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."
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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.
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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
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But in 1940 he did have a few pulpier tales like these six in Astonishing Stories.
The Pulpy Isaac Asimov Dark Worlds Club 2009
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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
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It's set quite a bit later, between the World Wars, and is appropriately much pulpier in tone.
Archive 2009-04-26 2009
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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
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It’s the pulpier aspects that make the novel interesting IMHO.
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Pulp does not get much pulpier than that, friends.
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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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