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Examples of doorstopper
doorstopper
As you might suspect, it's a great, baggy, idiosyncratic doorstopper of a book.
From the guardian.co.uk
All wrapped up neatly in the end like the converging plot lines in a Dickens doorstopper.
From the guardian.co.uk
So a lot of what an anthology represents, doorstopper though it might be, is all the stuff that's not there.
From the theatlantic.com
The result is a doorstopper book that has sold more than a million copies, and a piece of alchemic magic on screen.
From the guardian.co.uk
Not, previously, a Simmons fan, I'm still not quite sure why I started such a doorstopper, but I know I couldn't put it down.
From the guardian.co.uk
Based on more than 500 hours of interviews with more than 200 people, this is a doorstopper account of the crisis, told from the point of view of the Wall Street protagonists.
From the guardian.co.uk
That doorstopper of a rulebook is not about enhancing education or enforcing clean competition, it's about enforcing competitive balance and profit-sharing.
From the washingtonpost.com
Going back to the idea of the doorstopper, however, I'd vote for longer selections, especially for a discrete summer's reading, books one might stop and linger over while sipping a cool drink.
From the denverpost.com
Surely the great thing about Dickens is precisely the way he leads you through a 800-page doorstopper, making you smile, laugh and cry along the way, without you ever realizing you've read 800 pages?
From the guardian.co.uk
- Doorstop: a stop that keeps open doors from moving
