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bodice-ripping
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bodice-ripping [ˈbɒdɪsrɪpɪŋ] ADJ [film, novel] → romanticón


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Throw in Gavin's two young female wards, Will's near-magical horse Hosanna, and Kamil, the Muslim refugee from the Crusades who reluctantly becomes the imprisoned King Richard's messenger, and one has the stuff of the cheesiest of bodice-rippers.
Otherwise, ``Bones'' is just another variation on the ubiquitous crime procedural, only involving crimes in which precious few remains are available of the victims, necessitating sci-fi science - that saucy bodice-ripper (Michaela Conlin) has invented a gadget that creates holographic versions of the victims based solely on their bony remains.
Written like a popular bodice-ripper novel, the book includes many panting sex scenes, furious jealousies, endless rantings about an empty womb.
 
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