soapy
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Talc is a natural mineral made of magnesium, silicon, oxygen and hydrogen, known for its soapy feel and is often used in baby powder.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
First, a soapy sponge—nothing fancy, just one of the cheap ones, sudsed up with a dish soap that smells good.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
These stories may sound like soapy twists in a Taylor Sheridan drama or cable TV movie, but they actually come straight from one of the bestselling books of all time — the Bible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
They are producing “microdramas,” the soapy, episodic vertical-video shows that took off in China during Covid-19 lockdowns and now seem to be making inroads in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
A few minutes later Kote returned with a bucket of soapy water.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
I hadn’t heard any of the songs which, people said, were wilier and more mischievous than the straighter, soapier, we’re-in-love-now ballads that defined Disney movies past.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2019
For black professional women like Mary Jane, however, those other considerations make that quest an ever-more challenging undertaking, a truth the series excels at examining even as it traffics in soapier elements.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2019
Add in the acrimonies and resentments among his adult children and you’ve basically got a “Dallas” in the making, but the series shuns some of its soapier tendencies for deadly serious authenticity.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2018
“The Night Of …” was written by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian, though, and Mr. Moffat’s own work, including “Criminal Justice” and the legal drama “Silk,” is slicker and soapier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
Frost leaned more heavily into the soapier and kookier elements of the series.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2017
As a result, X-Men became, as Howe put it, “the soapiest soap saga ever put forth by the House of Ideas, filled with agonized romances, self-confidence crises, lectures on morality, psychic scars, and worrying.”
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2019
Jane the Virgin is a telenovela that, along with the soapiest of plot shenanigans, has taken on joy, loss, immigration, and breast-feeding.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2018
Yet despite all that, a hostile takeover attempt, and Lucious’s getting sent to jail in the final moments, the soapiest moment was both a throwback and a nod to present-day.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
Even the soapiest element of the pilot—Rayna and Juliette's "feud"—is very understated.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2013
That, to be sure, was nothing spectacular for the script of All My Children, one of television's soapiest midday dramas.
From Time Magazine Archive
