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Definition of bodice-ripper in English: bodice-rippernoun informal A sexually explicit romantic novel or film with a historical setting. Example sentencesExamples - The authors, Gretchen Peters and Aleem Agha, no ages given, must have cut their teeth writing bodice-rippers for the pulp market.
- During the summer, many of us avail ourselves of giant blockbuster books, bodice-rippers and techno-thrillers, tomes about the size of a brick with the sustenance of cotton candy.
- It's a literary mystery, an English thesis with the heart of a bodice-ripper.
- This bodice-ripper is set in the drab confines of Charenton Asylum, when Sade was slung for his many indiscretions.
- Now that was a bodice-ripper: passionate, crazed and outrageously overwrought.
- The result is as far removed from your typical bodice-ripper as it is from typical Anne Rice.
- Gainsborough bodice-rippers such as The Wicked Lady and The Seventh Veil had established him as the man audiences loved to hate.
- Their story is the very stuff of a Bollywood bodice-ripper.
- Despite Gabaldon's insistence that her books aren't romances, her earliest readers were, in fact, bodice-ripper fans - or, at the very least, people who enjoy juicy descriptions of bedroom gymnastics.
- It's fine to compare the Brontës with bodice-rippers.
- Full of juicy, true-life scandal and right royal intrigue, The Affair of The Necklace has all the makings of a sizzling period drama or at the very least a decent bodice-ripper.
- Girl With A Pearl Earring is not a film that makes haste, nor is it a bodice-ripper (its most explicit scene occurs as Griet gets her ear pierced).
- His character Hutchwright is the author of Hard Grinding, the steamy bodice-ripper being read by the book club.
- This allows them to do something finer than the bodice-ripper promised by promo-photograph: Firth making to kiss Johansson over the tag line, ‘Beauty inspires obsession.’
- His steamy bodice-ripper, Hard Grinding, has already featured on the soap and led to calls to bookshops from viewers who thought it was real.
- This happy modulation is what made his 900-plus-page historical bodice-ripper, The Crimson Petal and the White, more than just faux-Victorian erotica.
- It's the pronghorn equivalent of a bodice-ripper, and a natural history lover's delight.
- I kind of had an idea that I would write a bodice-ripper and get the big advance but I couldn't do it.
- Kitten is like the heroine in a bodice-ripper romance, or perhaps a Catholic martyr: beautiful, passive, steadfast, and awaiting rescue.
- A pioneer of montage, the always vigorous Gance had a special genius for depicting the sweep of history, but this bodice-ripper did not have the budget to rival the monumental scale of his 1927 Napoléon.
Derivatives adjective informal What is it about Chris Matthews’ show that evokes images of bodice-ripping, drooling ravishment? Example sentencesExamples - His sixth spouse was novelist Kathleen Winsor, who wrote the bodice-ripping bestseller Forever Amber; their union lasted about two years.
- It doesn't mean bodice-ripping or snuff fiction, and does not necessarily imply porn.
- Unsurprisingly, Liddell has been dubbed ‘the bodice-ripping diplomat’.
- Although the quality varied from week to week you could always be guaranteed a bodice-ripping art review when you opened your Salient on a Monday morning.
Definition of bodice-ripper in US English: bodice-rippernounˈbädəsˌripərˈbɑdəsˌrɪpər informal A sexually explicit romantic novel or movie with a historical setting. Example sentencesExamples - Gainsborough bodice-rippers such as The Wicked Lady and The Seventh Veil had established him as the man audiences loved to hate.
- It's the pronghorn equivalent of a bodice-ripper, and a natural history lover's delight.
- His character Hutchwright is the author of Hard Grinding, the steamy bodice-ripper being read by the book club.
- The authors, Gretchen Peters and Aleem Agha, no ages given, must have cut their teeth writing bodice-rippers for the pulp market.
- This bodice-ripper is set in the drab confines of Charenton Asylum, when Sade was slung for his many indiscretions.
- I kind of had an idea that I would write a bodice-ripper and get the big advance but I couldn't do it.
- It's fine to compare the Brontës with bodice-rippers.
- During the summer, many of us avail ourselves of giant blockbuster books, bodice-rippers and techno-thrillers, tomes about the size of a brick with the sustenance of cotton candy.
- Kitten is like the heroine in a bodice-ripper romance, or perhaps a Catholic martyr: beautiful, passive, steadfast, and awaiting rescue.
- A pioneer of montage, the always vigorous Gance had a special genius for depicting the sweep of history, but this bodice-ripper did not have the budget to rival the monumental scale of his 1927 Napoléon.
- Despite Gabaldon's insistence that her books aren't romances, her earliest readers were, in fact, bodice-ripper fans - or, at the very least, people who enjoy juicy descriptions of bedroom gymnastics.
- The result is as far removed from your typical bodice-ripper as it is from typical Anne Rice.
- Their story is the very stuff of a Bollywood bodice-ripper.
- This happy modulation is what made his 900-plus-page historical bodice-ripper, The Crimson Petal and the White, more than just faux-Victorian erotica.
- This allows them to do something finer than the bodice-ripper promised by promo-photograph: Firth making to kiss Johansson over the tag line, ‘Beauty inspires obsession.’
- Girl With A Pearl Earring is not a film that makes haste, nor is it a bodice-ripper (its most explicit scene occurs as Griet gets her ear pierced).
- Now that was a bodice-ripper: passionate, crazed and outrageously overwrought.
- Full of juicy, true-life scandal and right royal intrigue, The Affair of The Necklace has all the makings of a sizzling period drama or at the very least a decent bodice-ripper.
- His steamy bodice-ripper, Hard Grinding, has already featured on the soap and led to calls to bookshops from viewers who thought it was real.
- It's a literary mystery, an English thesis with the heart of a bodice-ripper.
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