Sentences with phrase «hanging effigies»

Classic deterrence strategy: this is like whipping and hanging effigies far away from the crowds.

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Far from being imprisoned, let alone hung in effigy, Scopes was free after his indictment.
When LA SALLE students hanged Coach Joe Heyer in effigy, the Explorers reacted.
Longhorn supporters, however, got final release for their feelings the next day by hanging officials Bo McAllister and Harry Covin in effigy from an apartment house near the Texas campus.
Because United Press International placed the Tigers second to Iowa last week in its football poll (the Associated Press, perhaps in self - defense, had them No. 1), LSU students hanged the UPI in effigy.
They've hung Democratic Congressmen in effigy.
I didn't see republicans hanging Obama in effigy... In any case, any woman who rises to become a governor of a state must have something going for her, although I didn't see any innate greatness in her.
An amusing example of this taboo on confronting a dressed lady with a naked man is embodied in a group portrait of the members of the Royal Academy in London in 1772, represented by Zoffany as gathered in the life room before two nude male models: all the distinguished members are present with but one noteworthy exception — the single female member, the renowned Angelica Kauffmann, who, for propriety's sake, is merely present in effigy, in the form of a portrait hanging on the wall.
Lying on the ground or hanging limply from a pole in the corner of a gallery space and speaking in anxious, angry or even hysterical tones, these disturbing little effigies with their lifelike faces often startled passersby.
Featuring a bevy of life - size burlap puppets hung from the booth's walls, there is something scary and vaguely oppressive about these effigies in everyday clothes whose arrangements and shabby condition seems to suggest the plight of migrants on the move.
The painting Nude Descending a Staircase No 2 by Marcel Duchamp was attacked by an angry mob, while Brancusi and Matisse were hanged in effigy.
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