trunkless

Both involve fragmented or "trunkless" figures and "shattered visages"; further, both seem to be critiques of masculine authority and dominion -- Medusa, after all, is a victim of

Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

Shelley's own verse, something fragmented and "trunkless", yet lovely. [

Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

(It may not help that Mr. Abbott omitted one of Ms. Meiselas's most famous and horrific images from the war: a trunkless body on a hillside.)

The Photojournalism Paradox 2010

"He has presence, authority, personality, performance and goals – he has everything," Ballack sighed, standing alone in the desert on his vast and trunkless legs of stone and watching a 2002 DVD of Michael Ballack: third best player in the world.

Football transfer rumours: Pavel Pogrebnyak to Liverpool? Barney Ronay 2010

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.

Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: I, Boobiac! 2010

Yeah, and there's a hidden secret to the trunkless legs?

Quiz Time Bardiac 2009

Two vast and trunkless legs of Robert Frost stood in the desert.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Two vast and trunkless legs of Robert Frost stood in the desert.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

Mr. Witt, wearing a light blue cardigan, is seated on a high stool while reading aloud Shelley's 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias": I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert ...

A LESSER FORM OF IMMORTALITY? IT'LL DO. 2007

Ozymandias I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.

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