Sentences with phrase «phallic symbols of»

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

This sculptural structure can be interpreted as a reference to the unicorn as a medieval symbol of purity and operates in direct contrast to its potential phallic association.

Not only in the sense that it is it treated as a folkloric fertility symbol despite its debated origins, but also in terms of traditional monumental sculpture: solitary in the changing landscape, the hyper - phallic man is here made to bend at the knees and kneel as in prayer.

Though rife with phallic weaponry, contentious battle scenes, or shadowy figures in the midst of an assault, her illustrations include playful symbols of childhood and recreation applied in soft shining colors making otherwise horrifying revelations seem only attractively unsettling.

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.

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.