novelettish

That cover has, to this eye, a novelettish look.

It's a pity that they tell such a fascinating story in a novelettish manner, in which sham antique alternates with slangy journalese.

Chiding the producers, Sydney Box and his sister Betty, who also wrote the screenplay, he describes it as a "novelettish distortion" of a contemporary problem.

The two stories with detective interest are the often reprinted Philomel Cottage (good but rather novelettish in style), and the clever Accident"

Within this novelettish framework the play veers from loopy comedy to serious moralising, from sub-Wildean epigrams (some of them quite funny) to horticultural symbolism.

What the film's success demonstrates most of all, I think, is that shallows sometimes have their depths, that truth of feeling can coexist with broad comedy and a novelettish plot.

A string of popular but critically dismissed films followed, including The Magic Bow in which Granger played Niccolò Paganini and Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) which the critic Leslie Halliwell called "novelettish balderdash killed stone dead by stilted production".