Sentences with word «ordure»

The suggestion of ordure dribbling along the legs of the eaters imbues their unseen (and highly ordinary) actions with repulsiveness.

Once notorious for his paintings encrusted with elephant ordure, Chris Ofili has blossomed into a complex, confident artist whose best work is his most recent — as a new exhibition at New York's New Museum shows

Without a ruthless clean - up man, all this referendum seems designed to do is cover politicians of every stripe with ordure — fuelling voter disillusionment

Parliament returned to yet more expenses ordure, this time at the hands of auditor Sir Thomas Legg.

Not long after that he had tabloid notoriety, all thanks to intricate, hedonistic paintings incorporating a certain kind of animal ordure.

Rudy Giuliani may have accidentally ramped Ofili's reputation by threatening to prosecute the Brooklyn Museum for showing his black virgin propped on dried elephant ordure, but the mayor ought to have observed that this Anglo - African Catholic was applying the identical substance to paintings concerned with slavery.

There is no cosmic tree or golden net or paradisal abundance, but a bed of straw, swaddling cloth and the smell of ordure.

It is amazing that this one man has had so much effect to counter this wave of ordure and lies.

When King Augeas refused to pay for this work, the morally outraged Hercules should not have killed the king outright but retrieved the flushed - out ordure and smothered the king under it.

Even as David Cameron piles the ordure on those 13 years of Labour rule he relies on the Blair guide to politics in every step he takes to occupy the centre ground.

Waters polluted by the ordure of pigs, poultry, or cattle represent a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes, both known and potentially novel.

Or is it a sunrise meadow dance neatly sidestepping the mushrooms and rocks and ordure and the self - congratulatory mutterings of the Received Obvious.