bodice-ripping
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4ADJ.
cheap, initial, popular
VERB + BODICE-RIPPING
know, would-be
BODICE-RIPPING + NOUN
author, violence
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
A lustful scene of seduction and violent or forcefully initiated sex.
We had a long debate about the ethics of bodice-ripping—who was allowed to rip and who got ripped.
The Dutch sado-masochism, represented first by the Vroom women's attempts at seducing Mason (through multiple bodice-rippings and invitations to spank) for the purpose of reproducing slaves, is further accentuated in a similarly contrived orgy -- described as ritualistic opportunity to transcend societal norms and delineations -- where "Lust is schedul'd, splashing outside the Church-drawn boundaries of marriage, as across racial lines."
adj
Characteristic of a bodice ripper.
There was, nearly always, ecstasy at the moment of entry. Jesus. What a cheap, bodice-ripping insult of a word.
If you're going to be selling workshops on how to write a winning romance novel to romance writers' groups, you know every would-be bodice-ripping author in five states.
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6We had a long debate about the ethics of bodice-ripping—who was allowed to rip and who got ripped.
WiktionaryThe Dutch sado-masochism, represented first by the Vroom women's attempts at seducing Mason (through multiple bodice-rippings and invitations to spank) for the purpose of reproducing slaves, is furthe
WiktionaryAll unknowing, innocent as the heroine of a Barbara Cartland Regency romance (at least for the first fifteen pages before the initial bodice-ripping), I came to Hollywood in 1962 with a few published
WiktionaryThere was, nearly always, ecstasy at the moment of entry. Jesus. What a cheap, bodice-ripping insult of a word.
WiktionaryIf you're going to be selling workshops on how to write a winning romance novel to romance writers' groups, you know every would-be bodice-ripping author in five states.
WiktionaryHis realist twenty-first century marital rape pays literal homage to the bodice-ripping violence of popular historical romances: He backhanded her again, much harder, and threw her backwards across th
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