Sentences with phrase «rather phallic»

Everything on Venus, except for one rather phallic feature, is named for a goddess or a famous woman.

I can see why certain catholics might want to light - up the top of the Empire State building — it is rather phallic.

Not exact matches

When The Squid and the Whale comes at last to a scene of a child regarding an object of repressed fear with frank wonder, rather than taking the easy analytical road by speaking of the phallic whale vs. the devouring squid, I think it's closer to the mark to see Baumbach himself gazing up at his film and wondering how it is that parts of his childhood could look so mundane freed from his skull.

You sit tall and upright in a rather wide cockpit, looking either at a set of flashy instruments or over a long, phallic front end, steering the car from farther back than what seems natural.

On the surface, the black inky lines and rich primary colours fit in perfectly with traditional ideas and tropes, but look a little further and things become rather more transgressive — the women on the cards are proudly holding phallic objects, louchely smoking a cigarette, wielding a bloody sword, legs akimbo in suspenders or with prosthetic limbs.

However, rather than being perceived as passive objects of male pleasure as stereotyped by the pornography industry, the women here are seen as active protagonists; they are given agency and the masculine element, symbolised by phallic shaped fruits and meats, becomes an object for their consumption.

Sexual instinct is directed to heterosexual pleasure, rather than self - pleasure like during the phallic stage.