Exhibit A—I had a boyfriend once. I was fifteen. He was fifteen. He had green eyes and floppy hair and likedVampire Weekend, and if that doesn't guarantee a life of shared bliss, I don't know what does.
2016,John Simpson, “Marshallers of Words”, inThe Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Shenanigan to Selfie, London:Little, Brown and Company,→ISBN; republished asThe Word Detective: Searching or the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.:Basic Books,2016,→ISBN,page51:
From 1924 onwards my little collection of evidence contained a mixture of literary references.Exhibit A wasEvelyn Waugh inVile Bodies (published in 1930):[…]
2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, inThe A.V. Club[1], archived fromthe original on5 March 2018:
Characters commenting on their own predicament as though they were the armchair jokesters ofMST3K is almost never as smart as a film’s creative team thinks it is—something for whichUrban Legend serves asExhibit A.
2023 September 19, Léonie Chao-Fong, quotingAntónio Guterres, “Biden addresses UN and will warn of Russian ‘brutalizing’ Ukraine without consequence; UN chief says ‘world becoming unhinged’”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
When countries break those pledges, they create a world of insecurity for everyone.Exhibit A: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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