Citations: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 0743250443, 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.
 * 1749,, 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.
 * 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.