plastery

In its crisp details, with a plaid pattern inscribed on limestone (the old Guggenheim is covered in Gunite, the plastery stuff swimming pools are made of), the annex distinguishes itself from the Wright building-which is good.

Do The Wright Thing 2008

Pasty, plastery skin, skinny, skinny lips, overly-processed hair... the lip color is just too much and washes her out even more.

Red Lipstick PeaceBang 2006

Sooner have me as I am than some poet chap with bearsgrease plastery hair, lovelock over his dexter optic.

Ulysses 2003

We are sleeping on the lounge floor at the moment because the bedroom seems to be taking AGES to decorate, and it's not suitable to sleep in right now - Neil seems to react badly to the plastery air anyway.

sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2001

His broad back was seen, followed by Jimmy, to plunge down the plastery corridors, to pass under the scaffoldings.

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

Sooner have me as I am than some poet chap with bearsgrease plastery hair, lovelock over his dexter optic.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

On the surface of the plastery liquid appear their backs and the straps of their accouterments.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

He wrote to his mother: "St Peter's disappoints me: the stone of which it is made is a poor plastery material; and, indeed, Rome in general might be called a rubbishy place; the Roman antiquities in general seem to me only interesting as antiquities, and not for any beauty ...

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