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English citations of plastic
- 1988, Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine, Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80s, Gonzo Papers, volume 2, reprint November 2003, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:
- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- 2008, Lily Allen, The Fear:
- It's all about fast cars and cussing each other / but it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic / and that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic.
- 2004, Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey, Mean Girls:
- Cady: You know I couldn't invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic.
Janis: Hey, buddy, you're not pretending anymore. You're plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.
- 2011, Emily Kapnek, Suburgatory:
- Tessa: Pretty ironic that a box full of rubbers landed me to a town full of plastic.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 103:
- the rage [...] betook itself at last to certain missile weapons; which, though from their plastic nature they threatened neither the loss of life or of limb, were, however, sufficiently dreadful to a well-dressed lady.
- 2012, Adam Zeman, ‘Only Connect’, Literary Review, issue 399:
- while the broad pattern of connections between brain regions is similar in every healthy human brain, their details – their number, size and strength – are thought to underpin our individuality, as synapses are ‘plastic’, shaped by experience.
- 1969, Lowell D. Streiker, The gospel of irreligious religion, page 83:
- The Hippie has been replaced by the pseudo-Hippie, the plastic Hippie, the weekend Hippie
- 2007, Daniel Sinker, We owe you nothing: Punk Planet: the collected interviews, page 238:
- People always try to say that we're garage rock, but that scene is so plastic. Some dude in a band has tight jeans, dyed black hair, and a starving girlfriend with bangs, and people call it indie rock. It's so gross.
- 2008, Matt James Mason, The pirate's dilemma: how youth culture is reinventing capitalism:
- Frustrated by a globalized music industry force-feeding them plastic pop music, hackers, remixers, and activists began to mobilize...
- 1966, Calvin C. Hernton, White papers for white Americans, page 67:
- He kissed the white woman once, and it was so artificial, so plastic (that's the word, plastic) that one wondered why did they bother at all.
- 1973, Eric Berne, What do you say after you say hello?, page 120:
- In fact it seems as though there are two kinds of people in the world: real people and plastic people, as the Flower Children used to say.
- 2004, Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey, Mean Girls:
- Janis: See? That's the thing with you plastics. You think everybody is in love with you when actually, everybody HATES you!
- 2006, Catherine Coulter, Born to Be Wild, page 71:
- But I don't think she would be happy in Los Angeles — it's so plastic and cheap and they expect the women to be whores to get anywhere.
- 2004, Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey, Mean Girls:
- Janis: See? That's the thing with you plastics. You think everybody is in love with you when actually, everybody HATES you!
- 2007, Mary G. Montgomery, Greywolf, →ISBN, page 42:
- He has two sides: one is himself, a deeply poetic soul, and the other is the Christopher everyone else sees—the extroverted plastic snob I despised.
- 2011, Dorian Gray, Killing Time, →ISBN, page 26:
- I had never been to a Hollywood studio before, so this was an eye-opening experience to see a film being made, the politics involved, and the expected plastic, egotistical sides of many in the business.
- 2011, Debbie Macomber, God's Guest List: Welcoming Those Who Influence Our Lives, →ISBN, page 4:
- It soon became obvious that he was so plastic, so saccharine, that if I had met him in any other circumstance, I confess I would have automatically avoided him. His world revolved around him.