单词 | iron maiden |
例句 | My body was a knot of raw nerves and nausea, my lungs crushed against my rib cage like a prisoner in an iron maiden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His premise: a woman is executed for murdering her husband by stuffing him into an iron maiden, a torture device from the 19th century, and shipping him off to a Berlin museum. ArtsBeat: Blood Relations: Mystery Writers Collaborate for Charity 2011-07-05T18:09:26Z The original is truly an original in the way it cleverly mixes menace with playfulness — An iron maiden and a little girl. ‘Despicable Me 2:’ Mischievous minions steal the sequel 2013-07-02T08:24:54Z For gorehounds, the pleasure comes with each scene of graphic and fantastic carnage at the hands of contraptions that make an iron maiden look like a Sit ’n’ Spin. What to Know About ‘Spiral’ and the ‘Saw’ Franchise 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z When you enter the theater, it is hanging from the flies, glittering but baleful, like a carapace or an iron maiden. Review: An ‘Evita’ Newly Tailored for Our Time 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The end result, constructed at Harvard, resembled the nave of a cathedral built by aliens to worship radial symmetry, or an iron maiden for punishing giant cubes. Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Female stereotypes become social iron maidens, instruments of torture and restriction that ensure women can only be defined by one socially imposed aspect of their wholly sexualised identity. Drama queens: why it’s all about women and power on screen right now 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z These include a treadmill with spinning blades, an iron maiden, a massive bear trap and a guillotine, to name but a few. ZADZOOKS: Bayonetta 2 review 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Protestants stand in danger of such tortures, and should arm themselves with the old armory of religious combat—the rack, the thumbscrew, the iron maiden, and the rest—as a matter of sheer protection. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Early in her career, Margaret Thatcher was described in a thumbnail sketch by Mr. Roth as a “blond, kempt, resolute, single-minded iron maiden in blue chiffon.” Andrew Roth, 91; American-Born Chronicler of British Politics 2010-08-16T22:41:00Z He writhed under his own pain alone, and his duty hugged him hard, like the iron maiden of the old tortures, but he would not yield. Evelina's Garden It was like some of the dreadful devices of torture which one saw in European castles, the "iron maiden" and the "spiked collar." King Coal : a Novel She was not an iron maiden, but one among the nervous natures which live largely in the moment, though she was then sacrificing it to her nature's deep dislike. The Egoist |
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