Plainview

[pleyn-vyoo]

noun

1. a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.

2. a city in N Texas.

Example Sentences

Transforming the settling of California into a revisionist allegory for American expansionism, the film features a ferocious, for-the-ages performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, who goes from a lone man literally crawling his way out of a hole in the ground to a ruthless oil baron, willing to sacrifice anything to claim a little more for himself.

From Los Angeles Times

Which is not to say the film lacks Anderson’s typical wit or humor, as in the infamous “I drink your milkshake!” scene during a final showdown between Plainview and his nemesis, a scheming evangelist played by Paul Dano.

From Los Angeles Times

You can tell because unlike Daniel Day-Lewis’ Daniel Plainview or Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Lancaster Dodd, he and Penn refuse to give the creep any charisma.

From Los Angeles Times

King Lear, Daniel Plainview, Howard Hughes, late Richard Nixon, Dennis the Menace’s neighbor Mr. Wilson: All men who ended up more or less alone and believed that others’ failures, rather than their own decisions, required them to exist that way.

From Slate

The son of a Minnesota state senator, Dunlap was born in 1951 and grew up in the farming community of Plainview in the state’s southeastern corner.

From Los Angeles Times