Claire Tomalin

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

English Author

Jes Macallan

When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship.

American Actress

Adam Cohen

When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

American Journalist

Jill Soloway

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?

American Comedian

Brandi Rhodes

AEW is all about the bell to bell action. You're going to get more wrestling and less soapy backstage drama.

American Wrestler

June Brown

I didn't want my book to be soapy - maybe it's my vanity but I think I can write better than that.

English Actress

Jamelia

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

English Musician

Sallie Patrick

We loved the original 'Dynasty' - the camp and the big, surprising, soapy twists.

American Producer

Use 'soapy' to describe things that have actual soap on them, not just water.

Not Just Clean

'Soapy' implies you can see or feel the soap, not that it's just dissolved or present.

Visible Soap

Something 'soapy' often means it's slippery to touch, like when soap is on your hands.

Slippery Texture

Use 'soapy' to describe someone's flattery that feels exaggerated or too smooth.

Slick Speech

Understand that describing speech as 'soapy' usually has a negative connotation.

Negative Nuance

When 'soapy' relates to a show, it suggests dramatic, often exaggerated storylines, like in soap operas.

TV Show Style

A 'soapy' story is often filled with excessive emotions, not just ordinary drama.

Emotional Excess

'Soapy' as a descriptor for drama is informal, best used in casual conversation, not in formal critique.

Colloquial Context

 atmospheric pressure which ends up liquefying some of the propellant meaning it actually dissolves in the soapy mixture below when you press this button the propellant gas at the top expands pushing the liquid down which in turn pushes it up through the straw out the nozzle and into the world now here

Shaving Foam PIPE...

 opens up new universes, literally. It has been speculated that our universe is only a bubble in a soapy multiverse made out of a multitude of bubbles, and each bubble is a different universe with different fundamental constants

Why our universe might...

 But natron isn't just any salt. It's mainly a mixture of two alkaline salts, soda ash and baking soda. Alkaline salts are especially deadly to bacteria. And they can turn fatty membranes into a hard, soapy substance,