lathery

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This lathery adaptation, directed by Charles Jarrott for the producer Hal B. Wallis, stars a blonde Vanessa Redgrave as a swoony Mary and Glenda Jackson as a carnivorous Elizabeth.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2018

The last of the entrees, a juicy veal filet mignon, featured the nice salty crunch of a green sage and breadcrumb crust and the lathery sweetness of a parsnip-hazelnut purée.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2010

With a few exceptions like La Bibbia, Italy's fumetti are sentimental soap-opera plots, as pure as they are lathery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next week a frustrated soap-opera character will have the dubious distinction of turning up in two lathery melodramas at the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive

So we passed out of the trench into a soapy, slippery mud which had been ploughed ground in the autumn, now become lathery with the beat of men's steps.

From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Palmer, Frederick