They are endorsed by others as harmless fun and the cultural equivalent of pagan fertility rites.

It was the cultural equivalent of spitting on a man's foot.

So each is capable of living on indefinitely and never going away, like the cultural equivalent of Styrofoam.

Installed with admirable clarity and pacing, these fragments add up to the cultural equivalent of a Big Bang.

This was much in keeping with the production that may well be the summer's cultural equivalent of window dressing.

Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.

But for those who favor the cultural equivalent of global positioning systems, these latter-day guide dogs have learned a few new tricks.

Think of it as a thought virus or the cultural equivalent of a gene, a phrase, a way of thinking.

Its the cultural equivalent of the scottish fired Mars Bar.

P'raj'rath is the cultural equivalent of a duel to the death.