priapic in a sentence
Examples
- In interviews promoting a new compendium of priapic wit and wisdom called " Hef's Little Black Book, " the 78-year-old Hugh Hefner credits Viagra for keeping him up to his neck in centerfolds named Brandy, Mandy and Sandy.
- They include a cow barn in the shape of an Assyrian bovine; an erotic garden folly called the " Hammock of Love ", replete with a copulating couple; a priapic fountain in a Gothic tabernacle and two self-portraits in drag.
- Thus predisposed, and ready to embrace Bill Clinton as the poster president for 1960s culture and idealism, not to mention as a kindred spirit whose " mad priapic obsession " he shared, Eszterhas found himself obsessed and enraged by recent White House scandals.
- Conversely, " The Guardian " s lead critic Alexis Petridis claimed Gabriel " suffered a musical mid-life crisis ", describing it as " an album packed with ultra-commercial priapic cod-funk " and " a ruthless bid for mainstream success ".
- This peculiar brand of hormonal mysticism informs much of Spencer's figurative art, and at the center of the picture, naturally, stands the artist himself : a priapic Peter Pan ( he was 5-foot-2 ) in a Dutch-boy haircut and undergraduate tweeds.
- The critic Robert Hughes, who nicknamed it " The Satyr in the Sphincter, " thought it was an emblem of nature caught in culture's web and also an insignia of homosexuality : the priapic animal, he observed, had pushed its way into a giant orifice.
- The only thing which they assuredly were not shown _ and to which even The Independent's correspondent was refused admission seven years ago _ was Tito's " Room of Ladies, " containing a series of nude statues and portraits of reclining girls which reflected the interests of the priapic old dictator.
- A tender ink drawing of Noah and the ark _ a natural for this artist whose specialty was animal painting _ hangs, for example, near another, done in thin washes of oil paint, of a discretely priapic satyr ( who happens, incidentally, to be the cover boy for the show's slim catalogue ).
- And as for the military adversaries, the Greek officers are bored and self-involved and basically can't stand one another; the Trojans are war weary, and their royal family ( Priam and his sons, including the great warrior Hector, the priapic Paris and the whimsically passionate Troilus ) is divided about whether the war is worth perpetuating.
- The'88 election, which saw Gary Hart vaporized by his priapic behavior, and Michael Dukakis bumbling his way through interviews and debates, was reduced to " photo-ops in flag factories or tanks, sound bites running all of 9.6 seconds, " according to no less an authority than the Kennedy School of Government's Marvin Kalb.