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pot-boiler
ˈpot-ˌboiler 1. One who boils a pot; spec. in Eng. Politics = potwaller. rare.1824 Hitchins & Drew Cornwall I. xvii. §17. 650 The right of election is vested at present in all the inhabitants [of Tregony] who are pot-boilers. 1826 [see potwaller]. 2. colloq. a. Applied depreciatively to a work of li... Oxford English Dictionary
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Pot Boiler
Pot Boiler is a 2007 album by The Verlaines on Flying Nun Records. Track listing All songs written by Graeme Downes except "Sunday in Sevastopol", music by Graeme Downes, lyrics by David Kominsky. "Midlife Crisis" – 3:19 "Stop Messing Around" – 2:58 "It's Easier to Harden a Broken Heart (than mend i... wikipedia.org
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pot-boiler
pot-boilern book, picture, etc written or painted only to earn money 仅为赚钱而创作的书、 画等 She produced regular pot-boilers while also working on her masterpiece. 她一面不断发表为　口的作品, 一面搞她的大作. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Pot boiler
In archaeology or anthropology, a pot boiler or cooking stone is a heated stone used to heat water - typically by people who did not have access to pottery or metal vessels. In Archaeology The term refers to a stone used to move heat from a fire to a vessel to raise the temperature of water in the v... wikipedia.org
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Potboiler
A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for lest he be forced to "do a 'pot-boiler' for some magazine" to make ends meet. wikipedia.org
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Richard Boulton
This was a defence of an earlier pot-boiler, containing a reply to the sceptical work Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft of Francis Hutchinson on witchcraft wikipedia.org
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William Bury Westall
Originally a businessman, he later became a journalist who also wrote about 30 pot-boiler romantic novels with titles including The Old Factory, The Phantom wikipedia.org
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Bernard Zweers
Wagenaar named two works as an example: Peter van Anrooy's Piet Hein Rhapsody, an orchestral pot-boiler based on a popular song about the seventeenth century wikipedia.org
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Backwards Traveller/Cuff Link
Author John Blaney describes "Backwards Traveller" as "a typical McCartney pot-boiler". wikipedia.org
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Cosmic Engineers
Damon Knight, however, panned the same edition as "a pot-boiler [which] should have been left interred" and noted that the 70th-century's inhabitants " wikipedia.org
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The Weak and the Wicked
Despite its pulpy pot-boiler title, the film settles for earnest social drama over melodrama. wikipedia.org
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She Painted Her Face
Critical reception Smithers considered this book to be a pot-boiler, although "it is necessary to admit that the yarn is an excellent one, tautly written wikipedia.org
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The Lust of Hate
reviewer in the Australian Town and Country Journal noted that the book "will certainly not rank among the best of his works, being indeed of an obviously pot-boiler wikipedia.org
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Henry Kitchell Webster
Webster usually released even his novels in serial form first, and he purposely straddled the line between popular "pot-boiler" fiction and longer, more wikipedia.org
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Gran Casino
In 1945, Larmarque starred in La cabalgata del circo, a pot-boiler about a theatrical troupe in nineteenth-century Argentina, which included in the cast wikipedia.org
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