chromium-plated

Gordon Crovitz Information Age: "Technology Rewrites the Fourth Amendment," Nov. 14 urges the Supreme Court to move away from old-geezer notions of privacy and into the fully illuminated, chromium-plated world of digital technology.

Technology Opens Those Castle Doors 2011

He wrote to his mother that he now found the city “slick and chromium-plated and fast and efficient and unpleasant.”

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

New troops arriving in Vietnam had been trained on the rifle, cleaning gear was available, and the rifles now had chromium-plated bores and the new buffer.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

For example, he called Madonna's chromium-plated coffee table book SEX "a Commonplace book for our day, by the Daisy Ashford of the 1990s, as filled with homilies and naive dreams as the diary of any Victorian young lady."

Ballard Gone: World at Half Mast 2009

For example, he called Madonna's chromium-plated coffee table book SEX "a Commonplace book for our day, by the Daisy Ashford of the 1990s, as filled with homilies and naive dreams as the diary of any Victorian young lady."

Archive 2009-04-19 2009

Two chromium-plated show windows display, in colour, representations of life in the R.A.F. at home and abroad.

S R Boldero Steve 2009

Inside was a jumble of chromium-plated bits of metal, hunks of broken glass, a large slab of dented mud guard, and a sheaf of the inevitable evidence envelopes.

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

Inside was a jumble of chromium-plated bits of metal, hunks of broken glass, a large slab of dented mud guard, and a sheaf of the inevitable evidence envelopes.

A Letter of Mary King, Laurie R. 1996

Among them was a small chromium-plated tube about three inches long with a loop of chain running from one end to the other.

For Kicks Francis, Dick, 1920- 1965

All I could see was the drinks compartment in Humber's monster car, with the rack of ice-picks, tongs, and little miscellaneous chromium-plated objects.

For Kicks Francis, Dick, 1920- 1965