Sentences with phrase «phallic power»

We get the set pieces: a moment of truth in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial - and a chase scene down the Mall toward the Washington Monument's threatening phallic power.

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To give up his magic is also to abandon his power over them, including his own daughter, Miranda; he waves his staff practically as a phallic symbol, and the choice to disempower himself is among the most touchingly self - humbling that a Shakespeare character makes.
establishment power: the British Museum, St George's Church at dawn, a comically abbreviated, golden, phallic Post Office Tower... The portraits, rigorous but loosely, freely painted in delicate white - grey - brown tonalities, also turn crucially on light effects.
The Men and Machines series, showing working men with various types of mechanical equipment, portrays Cold - War era images of technological advancements and plays on the cliché of machines as phallic symbols of male sexual power.
Her airplanes are interpreted as «an eternal cycle of energy that is absorbed only to be regurgitated and re-circulated,» while her phallic works are described as negotiations of power, potential, and restrictive forces of success.
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