| His life story sounded like the synopsis for a post-colonial potboiler of a novel. |
| As art, it was essentially a potboiler, refusing any commerce with physical or psychological detail. |
| Here was an unserious, part-time author having it all and more for a potboiler! |
| Not for Michael Gove the latest potboiler to while away the tedium of a visit to an accident and emergency department after he hurt his foot. |
| The material from the two Faust treatments is perhaps less convincing, and Berlioz's arrangement of The Marseillaise at the end the disc is an unnecessary potboiler. |
| The beach, by contrast, is intended as a comfortable spot to perch up and laze away with a potboiler. |
