Citations:Californication

English citations of Californication

• 1947, M. Marion Marberry, The Golden Voice: A Biography of Isaac Kalloch, page 311

  Isaac was pictured as the only male in the state who could satisfy his many succubi, and the Californication took place on his couch in City Hall,

• 1971, Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime, page 205

  Drinking and the expected Californication are kept within bounds, and the hero does not get himself beaten up unnecessarily.

• 1982, World Congress of Faiths, World Faiths Insight, page 51

  One wonders theologically if we readers are to be treated to yet another act of Californication of religions, a relativizing of them in the warm jacuzzi of […]

• 1984, Roderick P. Hart, Verbal Style and the Presidency: A Computer-Based Analysis, page 164

  This Californication of language was too much for New Englander Robert Shrum who quit the Carter campaign (after only 9 days on the job)

• 1990, Christie Davies, Ethnic Humor Around the World: A Comparative Analysis, page 47

  Things are not as universal as they seem and the Californication of the world is a highly particular form of progress.

• 1994, John Shelton Reed, My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture: And ..., page 100

  But the creeping Californication of the South was evident in her list of Good Things: yoga, exercise, the smell of spring, and the face of a happy child.

• 1994, Frank Stewart, A Natural History of Nature Writing, page 212

  sabotaging earthmoving equipment by pouring sand in crankcases — anything to stop what Abbey once called the Californication of the Southwest.

• 2000, Dayton Duncan, Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier, page 259

  Some people call it the Californication of the West, in honor of the people who took paradise and put up a parking lot.

• 2001, Dan Louie Flores, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, page 167

  If the Rocky Mountain West, from New Mexico to Montana, is today running scared of growth and Californication

• 2003, Fred Moody, Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story, page 101

  And the relinquishment of the Seahawks by the sane, local, staid, reliable Nordstrom family to Ken Behring, a California real-estate developer with hilariously gross tastes for the gaudy and ostentatious, was Californication writ large.

• 2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known, page 49

  And not until years and years later, when I too had become a Kentuckian again, did it come to me that in the Pennington Club that night, in my own small and, I trust, ineffectual way, I had aided and abetted a ravishing of innocence: the Californication of Kentucky.

• 2005, Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Frommer's Ireland 2005, page 570

  He was quite clear, however, about his job, which, in his own words, was "to prevent the Californication of Ireland."

• 2006, B. Clay Shannon, Still Casting Shadows: A Shared Mosaic of U.s. History, page 145

  the tired old jokes about Californication and "the land of fruits, nuts, and flakes."

• 2007, Ted Williams, Something's Fishy, page 293

  The project is a model and a mold-breaker, the only practical way to avoid the Californication of Maine.