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

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

  Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis

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

  The Huffington Post: Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: I, Boobiac!

• “(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 Wall Street Journal: The Photojournalism Paradox

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Pavel Pogrebnyak to Liverpool?

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

  Simon & Schuster: THE ANTHOLOGIST

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

  Quiz Time

• “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 ...”

  Newsweek: A LESSER FORM OF IMMORTALITY? IT'LL DO.

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

  2006 November 05 « raincoaster

• “Steel forming itself into cathedral walls and sheaths and arches and caverns and trunkless legs of stone, like perfect ruined sculptures.”

  The Zero

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