Sentences with phrase «phallic symbols»

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.

They were what they look like, phallic symbols of Rome's might.

«Middle finger aloft, De Palma cast the daughter (Melanie Griffith) of one of Hitchcock's iconic blondes as a porn star and has the villain penetrating helpless women with a massive power drill held at crotch - level as the most unsubtle phallic symbol in the history of cinema.

Actually, there are two caves next to each others filled in with gigantic wooden phallic symbols.

You start at Phra Nang Beach at the opposite end to the Princess Cave (the small cave filled with Phallic symbols, left by couples hoping to get pregnant).

My initial, smartalecky, response to this question was that of course the Eiffel Tower is a gigantic phallic symbol.

(Once you're on the lookout for phallic symbols, it's pretty hard not to find them.)

In the early days of his influence on literary studies, his theories proved particularly pernicious, sending scholars scurrying after phallic symbols and psychoanalyzing authors.

You'll have to get there hours before opening time though, and join a queue of hundreds of architecture students, photography enthusiasts, Pink Floyd fans, phallic symbol admirers, not to mention the usual scourge of tweeters and bloggers!

Fertility shrines are carved into the rock face here, with local Thais placing phallic symbols in them to bring them good luck.

In its conflation of penis and sword, the sculpture blurs metaphor and literalism in a way that echoes many of Lucas» earlier works (swords are often perceived as phallic symbols), for instance Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab (1992) in which a slang metaphor for the female body is made literal.

Now they sell factory made African masks, Budah statues, wooden Phallic symbols and other woodcarvings, most likely all made in outside Indonesia.

His # 20,000 prize, presented by Sir Peter Blake, will have to be shared with Claire, the burliest glamour girl in town, whose ruched satin «coming out dress», exquisitely embroidered with phallic symbols, hangs on one wall of his exhibition gallery.

@Giant door phallus — I do hope that people realize that my use of the phallic symbol was to prove a point.

that you will get over the kind of thinking that sees in every door handle a phallic symbol....

«I don't need a phallic symbol erected by a Victorian eccentric to remind me of the skull under the skin.

They brought the guns with them, and did not want the goverment to take them away.They modified the English bill of rights (1689) and made the 2nd amendment, which has now been changed sufficiently that gun nuts can have their phallic symbols and think that this makes them stronger.

Instead of murals of Edelweiss, in Bhutan they have murals of phalli, each delicately decorated with bows and ribbons... for in Buddhist Bhutan, the phallic symbol is one of good luck and prosperity.

According to New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, the ad comparing Barack to Britney and Paris was chock full of racist subtext and phallic symbols.

Artifacts from that period — the obese human and animal figurines and the phallic symbols carved in stone or bone and modeled in clay — point to the idea that the people had an obsession with the living world and its successful propagation through the descent group or lineage.

Those temples and the underground burial chambers related to them contained many images of obese humans — some no larger than a few centimeters, others the size of giants — as well as of animals and phallic symbols.

A winged, arrow - shaped spaceship, the Pan American, dart - like space shuttle Orion [a phallic symbol or representation of «sperm»], soars from Earth through space toward the Moon, bound first for Space Station 5 - a wheel - shaped way - station for passengers traveling on to the lunar surface.

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.

I must say, the phallic symbol suggestion from donnac is very interesting and one that, now pointed out, I totally agree with.

These monumental pieces provocatively appropriate the image of the screw as a phallic symbol of oppression — as in the expression «being screwed» — and evoke ominous power.

In Autumn 2002 Moffat started painting penises and phallic symbols (see «Pacifism» and «Freudian Explosion») for a short while, cunning works about homophobia and androphobia.

In the «Always a Winner» series, which addresses the Black Lives Matter movement, police batons are phallic symbols and clown makeup suggests racial distinctions.

Recurring motifs in his works, such as the hibiscus flower or phallic symbols, are often inspired by the works of others, highlighting the importance of dialogue in Barrington's work: influence and exchange are integral to his practice.

Untitled (2010) shows a recurrent influence in the practice of Daniel Sinsel, namely a kind of latent eroticism of neoclassicism, which is reflected in his use of the male form and phallic symbols.

In its conflation of penis and sword, the sculpture blurs metaphor and literalism in a way that echoes many of Lucas's earlier works (swords are often perceived as phallic symbols), for instance Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab in which a slang metaphor for the female body is made literal.

The banana and two oranges, their navels perfectly centered and facing the viewer, are undoubtedly a cheeky reference to a phallic symbol and breasts.

Both Ray Gun and Soft Drainpipe may be seen as phallic symbols.

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