pot-boiling

But the literary world has always suffered from ghettos, and I remember reading Elizabeth Jane Howard writing in her memoir that she went from being a respected author to a writer of pot-boiling romances when her series about the Cazalet family sold a lot of copies.

On Georgette Heyer « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

Too long by half, it does not rise much above pot-boiling in creating a worry to fret over. —

The Hidden Danger of Gmail Labs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

There's so much culture in this story that one hardly notices the pot-boiling tension between Raphel and his grandfather.

REVIEW: Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi 2008

Between the lines of the white paper presented Wednesday by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling lies a plot of power plays and put-downs worthy of a pot-boiling thriller.

Regulatory Rumble 2009

Thanks, I am not going to argue about the science of pot-boiling, but the point was, the weather is more like the bubbles that do the heat transfer, and the climate is more like the net result.

Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

The little green men made me do it, and the pot-boiling witches put a spell on me, it was like the inquisition, phosphorous inmy armpitsm, stretched on a rack, tortured.

Think Progress » Cyrus Nowrasteh unhinged. 2006

Little of that has been seen in public lately, but you must understand that pot-boiling, language-twisting, and other general impishness is what Valla Ann considers humorous.

Merger Talks Hit Snag Randy Smith 2006

Little of that has been seen in public lately, but you must understand that pot-boiling, language-twisting, and other general impishness is what Valla Ann considers humorous.

Archive 2006-03-19 Randy Smith 2006

Instead we got a confounding collection of pot-boiling civil wars that erupted throughout those regions.

Creating New Visions for Ending Conflict 2003

For your Thanksgiving weekend reading pleasure we aren't recommending a pot-boiling beach book, but the verbatim transcript of the October 3, 2005 meeting of the "SRIA Committee to Redefine Pensacola Beach."

Thanksgiving Beach Read Beach Blogger 2005