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  • But the solicitation sounds kind of plonkingly straight-faced and earnest about it, so my guess is it'll have the worst of both worlds - a premise that's kind of offensive in service of an unremarkable story.

    Flippin’ through Previews – February 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live.

    Boing Boing: January 4, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Archives 2004

  • "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Nobody ever writes “Gobi Desert Opera” because, well, it’s just kind of plonkingly obvious that there’s no good reason to go there and live.

    Interstellar Travel « Gerry Canavan 2008

  • Nobody ever writes “Gobi Desert Opera” because, well, it’s just kind of plonkingly obvious that there’s no good reason to go there and live.

    A Month of Writers, Day Two: Charles Stross « Whatever 2007

  • Nobody ever writes “Gobi Desert Opera” because, well, it’s just kind of plonkingly obvious that there’s no good reason to go there and live.

    2007 December 02 « Whatever 2007

  • By the by, MaxRosen's plonkingly arrogant espousal of Arabic as a prime language of the 21st century neglects one thing - the only thing it has to say is "Al Koran or the sword".

    French is too important to be left to middle-class Francophiles | Andrew Hussey 2011

  • Unfortunately the attempt is doomed to failure because of Robinson's plonkingly awful prose style.

    March Books 37) Doctor Who and the Sensorites nwhyte 2008

  • My own mind fills up with what Heidegger called the "muffling fog" of boredom during all announcements given on aircraft, particularly those filled with plonkingly ordinary data, such as the news that we are to travel from Calgary to Toronto, via northern Ontario, at 35,000 feet.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • My own mind fills up with what Heidegger called the "muffling fog" of boredom during all announcements given on aircraft, particularly those filled with plonkingly ordinary data, such as the news that we are to travel from Calgary to Toronto, via northern Ontario, at 35,000 feet.

    Archive 2009-06-01 enowning 2009

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