Citations:beturtlenecked

English citations of beturtlenecked and be-turtle-necked

Adjective: "wearing a turtleneck"

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• 2001, Jennifer Egan, Look at Me, Anchor Books (2001), →ISBN, page 403:

  Last week, Thomas had sent a professional photographer to my apartment: Randall Knapp, a solemn, beturtlenecked fellow […]

• 2006, David Walberg, "Harper's holy war", Daily Xtra, 19 January 2006:

  But imagine Stephen Harper, freshly trimmed and beturtlenecked, as our prime minister: goading the faithful, exploiting misunderstandings, fomenting bigotry, shredding the social fabric.

• 2009, Sean Maloney, Confronting the Chaos: A Rogue Historian Returns to Afghanistan, Naval Institute Press (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  The be-turtle-necked Thomas Shultze, the FFO rep, was upbeat about the prospects in Konduz but not in the artificial way many diplomats usually are.

• 2009, Dan Moren, "Steve Jobs turns 54", Macworld, 24 February 2009:

  Personally, I like to imagine him, beturtlenecked and in jeans—perhaps with fuzzy bunny slippers replacing his usual sneakers—giving a keynote presentation to his friends and family, updating them on the status of Steve over the last quarter, and explaining to them all the new features that come with turning 54 ("And then your knees just give out—boom.")

• 2010, Jonah Furman, "New Vibrations: The Tallest Man on Earth", The Johns Hopkins News-Letter (Johns Hopkins University), 11 November 2010:

  […] and on the steps are three fawning co-eds with flowers in their hair, ogling a mustachioed beturtlenecked artiste, […]

• 2011, Tara Morgan, "Snuggle up with Sniglets", Boise Weekly, Volume 20, Issue 6, 3 August 2011 - 9 August 2011, page 26:

  For the exhibit, titled The New Nothing, Cunningham will reprise her Sniglets series, which features simple, ghostly line drawings of big-eyed, "beturtlenecked" characters.