Sentence examples for as a plaster from inspiring English sources

Where it excels, he said, is as a plaster.

"I don't want anyone to feel I'm posing as a plaster saint," he wrote in "Satchmo".

The myth of him as a plaster saint is still very strong.

Based on Dreiser's remembrance of his beloved mother, Jennie emerges as a plaster saint with whom most modern readers find it difficult to empathize.

It is not even as if the rapid re-writing of history does her any favours, for it recasts her as a plaster saint rather than a real woman with faults and virtues; in between the encomiums, Diana herself is in danger of getting lost.

It is a binding material being used in masonry as a plaster finish coat.

The move has been described by obesity researcher Zoe Harcombe as "useful as putting a plaster on a severed artery".

At times it might as well be a plaster wall.

(A sample: "I cast myself as a cast — plaster, but not plastered, and not my waist. My waist isn't cast in plaster, and my hair isn't plastered. It's lacquered").

It's the political equivalent of ripping a plaster off as quickly as possible, although in this scenario the adhesive material in the plaster has fused with the wound it was covering, and half your leg has come away, and now gangrene has set in, plus that plaster cost you £45 because there isn't an NHS any more.

The room on the other side is surgical, its table a cold metal, its walls smeared white as if in a plaster cast.