Sentence examples for on a pulp from inspiring English sources

Based on a pulp novel by Winston Graham, Marnie, one of Hitchcock's most bizarre psychological/sexual thrillers, was Allen's first screenplay.

The Godfather was based on a pulp smash, Vertigo on a Gallic-noir potboiler, and Casablanca was written by committee.

A literary novelist takes on a pulp staple — zombies — in this cool, thoughtful fiction, set in a post-plague Manhattan overrun with the undead.

"Drive," based on a pulp novel by James Sallis, was in development at Universal as a big-budget potential franchise for years.

He explains that he made the film, which is a based on a pulp novel by Edward Bunker, as "a redemption project" to put right the unhappy experience of an earlier film he made with Cage.

Much as he did in his last movie, "Contraband," another thriller with Mr. Wahlberg, Mr. Kormakur has put his imprimatur on a pulp fiction that easily could have become another generic diversion instead of a fine genre one.

The tea bag then sits on the spoon, squeezed to a pulp, spoon on the spoon rest.

The next week, a black guy gets hauled in and beaten to a pulp on camera.

The answer comes to him as he is beaten to a pulp on his first "mission": because it hurts.

"I think if Brady would've caught it, I would've kept running and beat him to a pulp on the warning track," said Zeile, a former Oriole, who hit only his third home run of the season and his first since May 25.

Guns are the only technology that makes individual self-defence practical and we take this right so seriously that we are willing to suffer the few crimes that might otherwise have been prevented by gun prohibition.I wonder what a civilised Englishman is expected to do if he encounters a gang of thugs who are intent on beating him to a pulp.