How to Use potboiler in a Sentence

potboiler

noun

• Hands of the Ripper is a potboiler in the truest sense of the word.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2022
• All of which isn’t to make The Beguiled sound like a campy potboiler.
  — Hillary Busis, VanityFair.com, 22 June 2017
• His writing can be a bit all over the map, but this new potboiler is just nifty fun.
  — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2021
• The story of Garfield’s death is something of a potboiler.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
• Yet, his movies feel like more than just cliché potboilers.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 6 July 2017
• But then Tina Brown, the writer making the comment in her new royal potboiler, is not, in that sense, nice.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• But Jaffe did not set out to write a frivolous potboiler.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• To German prosecutors, Dr. Berger is an archetype straight out of a potboiler: the revered enforcer who went to the dark side.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2020
• Published in 1987, Mahmoody’s pulp memoir had all the makings of a potboiler.
  — Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2021
• In the midst of his professional renaissance, Downey met his future wife on the set of 2003's potboiler Gothika.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 13 July 2023
• But around 1890, with the rise of naturalism, critics soured on the potboilers that made her flamboyance shine.
  — Rachel Shteir, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• Collins was a kind of potboiler Proust, writing about Hollywood bashes in her diaries, tart excerpts of which are read in voice-over.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2021
• What happened to her career has become the great potboiler mystery of tennis.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• This sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller or a paperback potboiler in which the world is heading for conflagration.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• The putative author of this potboiler is one Anya Partridge.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
• Bonestell also illustrated Project Mars, a 1948 potboiler novel by von Braun that imagined the first trip to the red planet and what comes next.
  — David Beers, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2020
• As a young man, Bourgoin resembled a character out of a potboiler.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Overcomplicated chronology is now a cliché of modern TV storytelling, but a good potboiler knows how to put a cliché to good use.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
• Taking the form of a potboiler murder mystery, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is richly imagined.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
• And the main purveyor of inappropriateness in this potboiler isn’t an adult film star, amazingly, but the president of the United States.
  — Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2018
• Unlike that wife, Hitler at least gets some grudging respect and decent dialogue in this potboiler about the diplomatic efforts to stop Germany.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline could have become a dour, moralistic exercise or a potboiler devoid of politics.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
• And pivoting from the intimacy of Creed to a generation-spanning family epic straight out of a potboiler novel is just a weird call all around.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
• Curators tell stories, and the Met could use more with a potboiler sensibility.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Get ready to simmer in the latest potboiler from prolific creator Taylor Sheridan.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2021
• Perhaps the Met carefully planned this deep dive into verismo, that blood-and-guts, heart-on-sleeve, homicidally inclined genre of Italian potboiler that flourished around the turn of the 20th century.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2018
• What distinguishes the plot from a potboiler Western is the vivid portrayal of Joshua’s transformation.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2021
• And that’s just it: Of all the recent dramatic work that could be supported, why does a minor, conventional potboiler merit this singular kind of showcase?
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• The men were involved in an industry that produced racy potboilers about the mainland’s Communist Party leadership.
  — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• This ancient political thriller has all the ingredients of a modern-day potboiler.
  — Anand Neelakanthan, Quartz India, 20 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024