Citations:devil's triangle

English citations of devil's triangle

an immoral (especially adulterous) love triangle

• 1915 November 25, Wilbur F. Craft, “Dancing in High Schools”, in Journal of Education‎^[1], volume 82, number 19, Archived via archival database Google Books, page 510:

  High school dances are just now especially untimely, for there is a sex madness on the nation, as shown from the increased 'suggestiveness' of dance and drama and song and dress and magazines,—the latter now so reeking with stories strung on the devil's triangle, 'the husband, the wife and the lover,' that Pittsburgh has felt constrained to appoint a censor for the magazines.

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• 1975, New York, volume 8, page 40:

  The ads for this devil's triangle pictured Ms. Black screaming in what could either be a terrified or an orgasmic pose, with an inset of the fetish hugging her leg. You go to the movies and you find Katharine Ross in her Connecticut dream home ...

• 1989, Josefina Vicens, The False Years, page 83:

  She offends me by saying that. What am I anyway? I've had enough of this devil's triangle! Is she perverse or just silly or what? I haven't had a drink since. I'm not playing into her hands. Yes, it was the second anniversary. I went to the 83.

sexual intercourse between one woman and two men.

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• 2007 October 9, Dan Friesen, “Column: Picking up where the sex columnist left off”, in The Maneater‎^[2], volume 74, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri; Archived via archival database NewsBank, via NewsBank:

  This week's article, 'The more, the merrier,' is an insightful treatise on having a threesome. It is a triumph. She hits all the threesome bases: the 69, the daisy chain, the devil's triangle. She covers it all.

• 2018 October 2, Alan Baker, “OT: "Devil's triangle"”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):

  'Hey Renate? Want to play devils triangle with Mark and I?' Brett asked. Clearly a drinking game...with three glasses. Have you ever played Quarters? It's like that, except two guys stick their penises into one woman.

• 2018 October 4, Suman Varandani, “Kavanaugh's 1983 Yearbook Online: Former Classmate Explains What 'Devil's Triangle' Really Means”, in International Business Times‎^[3], Archived via archival database NewsBank:

  Kavanaugh said the term 'devil's triangle' referred to a drinking game, rather than a sexual threesome with two men. On Wednesday, Kavanaugh's Yale roommate Jaime Roche came forward to dispute the judge's senate hearing testimony, saying he was 'shocked' when he heard that a 'Devil's Triangle' was a drinking game. 'I was shocked when I heard that. Those words were commonly used, and they were references to sexual activities,' Roche said. 'If you think about the context in which you might hear those words, the way that he described them and the way that they are defined, they are not interchangeable. I heard them talk about it regularly.'

• 2018 October 5, Tom Enright, “Re: Devil's Triangle Group”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

  Saw a woman stating that a 'devil's triangle' is when two men rape a woman. The term is only used in cases of sexual assault.

an area that is dangerous, especially one where people disappear

• 1976, The Pulse: Daily Review of the Turkish Press:

  "I say most emphatically that the Seydisehir, Iskenderun, TARIS events, which smell of intrigue, the executions without trial in Zeytinburnu, Malatya, Mardin, the skilful plots in the youth and labour sectors and in the East are a devil's triangle."

• 1977, World Literature Today, volume 64, page 155:

  "Perhaps all the guilt lies in this devil's triangle, the Balkans, where they are always out to get you."

• 1981, The Skeptical Inquirer, volume 6, page 50:

  With this last incident we have exhausted Berlitz's proofs of a "devil's triangle disaster." As superficial as these events may seem individually, taken as a whole the picture is even more astonishing: 75 percent of the incidents did not even occur ...

• 2005, Gert Oostindie, Paradise Overseas: The Dutch Caribbean, page 10:

  ... a remarkable modernity. But the crux of this devil's triangle was slavery, a form of labour which gradually became stigmatized in Western Europe; if not perceived as economically obsolete, it was increasingly deemed morally reprehensible.

• 2012, Iain Sinclair, Ghost Milk: Recent Adventures Among the Future Ruins of ...:

  Like the underfunded academics, the highway-devouring lecturers, Chinese economic migrants shuttled around a devil's triangle: Manchester's Chinatown restaurants to Liverpool to Morecambe. Always in sealed vans or met at the bus station […]

plural

• 2000, Michelle Jerott, A Great Catch, Avon Books (→ISBN):

  The passengers still on board were keen to watch as Tessa's crew scrambled for their positions, and she heard jokes about icebergs and devil's triangles, and anxious childish queries answered by soothing adult tones.

• 2001, Sam George, The Perfect Day: 40 Years of Surfer Magazine, Chronicle Books Llc

  ... failures and the more mysterious—UFOs, witchcraft, devil's triangles, supernatural and other inexhaustible subjects, such as sleeping (pun intended). After waking, we showered ourselves in the waves on the tail end of a 2- to 3- meter swell.

a set of three things considered dangerous (or seedy or diabolical)

• 1982, Asian Perspective, volumes 6-7, page 61:

  The two major oil crises the world suffered during the 1970s, the relatively long economic stagnation in the advanced world, and the devil's triangle of high inflation, deep unemployment, and balance of payments pressure which bedevils most […]

• 1991, Arts Magazine, volume 66, page 93:

  The most pathetic things were the tiny ones, barely balanced, almost drowning in that devil's triangle of hard kitsch, classic tristesse, and real confession: Solitary Confinement, a small hut on a hill, and For Charlie Parker, a bird looking into the ...

in healthcare

• 2008, Turgut Topal, Establishing the Use of Melatonin as an Adjuvant Therapeutic Against Paraquat-Induced Lung Toxicity in Rats, in Experimental Biology and Medicine, page 1133:

  Activation of this "'devil's triangle" may be the core of the pathophysiological process of PQ toxicity (4, 6). Furthermore, PQ itself, ROS and peroxynitrite induce intracellular transcription factors such as nuclear factor (NF)-kB and activator protein- ...

• 2018, Chuanhai Cao, Sarvadaman Pathak, Kiran Patil, Antioxidant Nutraceuticals: Preventive and Healthcare ..., page 16:

  High levels of NO with excess O₂- and high levels o ONOO^- are referred to as a devil's triangle. Melatonin is currently the only antioxidant that is able to combat all aspects this devil's triangle (Korkmaz et al. 2009).

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• 2019, John Corbett, Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music, page 111:

  […] I think this devil's triangle of suspended disbelief set the conditions for some of the most influential musical culture of the seventies, from Kiss to the New York Dolls to Devo.

a summoning triangle

• 2014, Bill E. Moore, Why I Loved My Job With Sears, page 19:

  A man opened the door and I could see down the hallway and I saw a devil's triangle and a ram's head in the center of the triangle. The man had a long cape type coat on; right then and there I knew it was going to hit the fan.

a Penrose triangle (optical illusion or impossible structure)

• 2000, Donald D. Hoffman, Visual Intelligence: How We Create what We See, page 5:

  If you construct this with wood and view it from just the right angle, you can see the devil's triangle. Of course, what you construct with wood is not the devil's triangle itself, since that is impossible.