1947, M. Marion Marberry, The Golden Voice: A Biography of Isaac Kalloch, page 311
Isaac was pictured as the only male in the state who could satisfy his many succubi, and the Californication took place on his couch in City Hall,
1971, Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime, page 205
Drinking and the expected Californication are kept within bounds, and the hero does not get himself beaten up unnecessarily.
1982, World Congress of Faiths, World Faiths Insight, page 51
One wonders theologically if we readers are to be treated to yet another act of Californication of religions, a relativizing of them in the warm jacuzzi of […]
1984, Roderick P. Hart, Verbal Style and the Presidency: A Computer-Based Analysis, page 164
This Californication of language was too much for New Englander Robert Shrum who quit the Carter campaign (after only 9 days on the job)
1990, Christie Davies, Ethnic Humor Around the World: A Comparative Analysis, page 47
Things are not as universal as they seem and the Californication of the world is a highly particular form of progress.
1994, John Shelton Reed, My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture: And ..., page 100
But the creeping Californication of the South was evident in her list of Good Things: yoga, exercise, the smell of spring, and the face of a happy child.
1994, Frank Stewart, A Natural History of Nature Writing, page 212
sabotaging earthmoving equipment by pouring sand in crankcases — anything to stop what Abbey once called the Californication of the Southwest.
1996, Dan L[ouie] Flores, “A Long Love Affair with an Uncommon Country: Environmental History and the Great Plains”, in Fred B. Samson, Fritz L. Knopf, editors, Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America’s Most Endangered Ecosystem, Washington, D.C., Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Value in Prairie), page 5:
If the intermountain West, from New Mexico to Montana, is today running scared of growth and Californication, the Great Plains is a large slice of the West that does not share that particular fear.
And if you want these kind of dreams it's Californication[…] Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement […] Born and raised by those who praise control of population […] Well, everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation […] Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation / And earthquakes are to a girl's guitar, they're just another good vibration / And tidal waves couldn't save the world from Californication[…] Sicker than the rest, there is no test, but this is what you're craving / First born unicorn / Hardcore soft porn / Dream of Californication / Dream of Californication / Dream of Californication / Dream of Californication
2000, Dayton Duncan, Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier, page 259
Some people call it the Californication of the West, in honor of the people who took paradise and put up a parking lot.
2003, Fred Moody, Seattle and the Demons of Ambition: A Love Story, page 101
And the relinquishment of the Seahawks by the sane, local, staid, reliable Nordstrom family to Ken Behring, a California real-estate developer with hilariously gross tastes for the gaudy and ostentatious, was Californication writ large.
2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known, page 49
And not until years and years later, when I too had become a Kentuckian again, did it come to me that in the Pennington Club that night, in my own small and, I trust, ineffectual way, I had aided and abetted a ravishing of innocence: the Californication of Kentucky.
