Citations:Californication
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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.
- 1996, Dan L[ouie] Flores, “A Long Love Affair with an Uncommon Country: Environmental History and the Great Plains”, in Fred B. Samson, Fritz L. Knopf, editors, Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America’s Most Endangered Ecosystem, Washington, D.C., Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Value in Prairie), page 5:
- If the intermountain West, from New Mexico to Montana, is today running scared of growth and Californication, the Great Plains is a large slice of the West that does not share that particular fear.
- 1999, Anthony Kiedis, Chad Gaylord Smith, John Anthony Frusciante, Michael Peter Balzary (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (lyrics and music), “Californication”, in Californication:
- And if you want these kind of dreams it's Californication […] Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement […] Born and raised by those who praise control of population […] Well, everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation […] Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation / And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar, they're just another good vibration / And tidal waves couldn't save the world from Californication […] Sicker than the rest, there is no test, but this is what you're craving / First born unicorn / Hardcore soft porn / Dream of Californication / Dream of Californication / Dream of Californication / Dream of Californication
- 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.
- 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.