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  • Not the saccharine Disney versions, but the unexpurgated Grimms, with their sawed-off heels and lopped-off heads and altogether dark and nasty vision.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Not the saccharine Disney versions, but the unexpurgated Grimms, with their sawed-off heels and lopped-off heads and altogether dark and nasty vision.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • DAVID WAS: Whether it's Britney Spears 'lopped-off locks or Elvis Presley's empty pill bottles, the personal effects of celebrities are the modern day equivalent of medieval religious relics.

    Has Celebrity Worship Gone Too Far? 2010

  • A lopped-off arm for brigandage proved as effective a deterrence as a Roman crucifixion once did.

    Modern-Day Blackbeards Arthur Herman 2010

  • Naldo waited at a crossing, glancing to his right, hardly noticing the dark ruins of the Kaiser - Wilhelm Geddchtniskirche, its scarred and lopped-off stump of a spire a permanent reminder of the Second World War's devastation.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • A lopped-off arm for brigandage proved as effective a deterrence as a Roman crucifixion once did.

    Modern-Day Blackbeards Arthur Herman 2010

  • DAVID WAS: Whether it's Britney Spears 'lopped-off locks or Elvis Presley's empty pill bottles, the personal effects of celebrities are the modern day equivalent of medieval religious relics.

    Has Celebrity Worship Gone Too Far? 2010

  • A lopped-off arm for brigandage proved as effective a deterrence as a Roman crucifixion once did.

    Modern-Day Blackbeards Arthur Herman 2010

  • Let the wind scramble your hair and notice things: the smell of star jasmine on the night air, the low and heavy, lopped-off look of a lambent waning moon, the rhythmic lean of palm trees waiting for the sun.

    "You Go" 2009

  • Francesca, who was always looking for a greater meaning to life, survives the crash and hooks up with the Church of the Ultimate Sacrifice, where true worship takes the form of lopped-off limbs and wearing your own eyeballs around your neck.

    REVIEW: Infinity Plus - The Anthology edited by Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers 2007

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