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But the dirty little secret is that this is a bodice-ripping page-turners of a TV series, filled with intrigue and romance and danger and betrayal and all the sort of thing one finds in a soap.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set Michael Giltz 2010
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But the dirty little secret is that this is a bodice-ripping page-turners of a TV series, filled with intrigue and romance and danger and betrayal and all the sort of thing one finds in a soap.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set Michael Giltz 2010
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At first glance there would seem to be few similarities between Jilly Cooper, the queen of bodice-ripping romance, Vivienne Westwood, fashion's enfant terrible, and Professor Richard Dawkins, scourge of religion.
From David Attenborough to Delia Smith, the best of the grey power list 2011
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But the dirty little secret is that this is a bodice-ripping page-turners of a TV series, filled with intrigue and romance and danger and betrayal and all the sort of thing one finds in a soap.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set Michael Giltz 2010
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For it's the appearance of maturity that draws the 5th grade teacher away from her lonely marriage and bodice-ripping paperbacks, not the handsomeness.
Jamie Denbo: Tina Fey, Mothers, Daughters, Sons Jamie Denbo 2011
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Mr. ROCCA: If C-SPAN's live coverage of the Ways and Means Committee is too hot for you, then surely you're not ready for C-SPAN2's bodice-ripping "Book TV."
Bluff The Listener 2010
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We're sparing you a lot of bodice-ripping details that go way beyond the family-newspaper zone.
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In Yuyang's teachers' college, sex is the preferred weapon to undermine a social opponent; bodice-ripping encounters are surprisingly common.
Daughters and Sins Raymond Zhong 2011
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At first glance there would seem to be few similarities between Jilly Cooper, the queen of bodice-ripping romance, Vivienne Westwood, fashion's enfant terrible, and Professor Richard Dawkins, scourge of religion.
From David Attenborough to Delia Smith, the best of the grey power list 2011
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We're sparing you a lot of bodice-ripping details that go way beyond the family-newspaper zone.
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