meningitic streak

Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.
DJ Spooky Wants You To Question Everything You Know About Music, Technology, and Philosophy|Oliver Jones|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was clear to me that at least at the end of his life the Dionysian streak was trying to get out.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Was the blackface scene with Gene Wilder in Silver Streak an important step in how American audiences view minstrelsy?
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America|David Yaffe, Scott Saul|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In fact, the original Burroughs books possess a clear “green” streak that now seems quite prescient.
Can Tarzan of the Apes Survive in a Post-Colonial World?|Ted Gioia|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In fact, she knew the correct answer 92 percent of the time she buzzed in during her 20-game streak.
Jeopardy! Champion Julia Collins’s Brain Feels Like Mush|Sujay Kumar|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But few knew of this her literary streak, as her mother styled it, for she dreaded any publicity.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
This bird also has a whitish streak over the eye, which seems wanting in A. streperus.
Birds of Guernsey (1879)|Cecil Smith
When they had toiled up the bank to a level stretch, he let the roadster out, and they went through Frog Tanks like a red streak.
Motor Matt's "Century" Run|Stanley R. Matthews
Sin Sin Wa followed, nearly closing the first door, so that only a faint streak of light crept down to them.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
Lance reduced the speed, and the Blue Streak began to move shoreward.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison

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