Sentence examples for detached head from inspiring English sources

Blatt said that he anticipated another gutsy performance from his point guard in Game 4, noting that Dellavedova had played several games in college with a detached head.

It features Salome's postmortem romance with the detached head of the prophet Jochanaan, whose death she arranged after he spurned her.

The set for Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's 1982 production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" at the Metropolitan Opera is dominated by a huge detached head of a god.

And when Robespierre was executed in 1794, she reportedly stood beside the guillotine and made a death mask of his detached head before it and his body were thrown into a common grave.

For a couple of meals, my alternative turned out to be at one of the market food stands that specialize in roast pig — displayed whole, with his detached head turned back at an impossible angle, as if he'd been lying on his stomach to take the sun and had looked around suddenly to see who was sneaking up behind him.

A shark tearing apart an elephant seal underwater, the seal's detached head and shoulders hanging from the shark's mouth; those army ants, like a living carpet in the jungle, devouring, in close-up, everything in their path; and, most amazing of all, a sandstorm in the Sahel, south of the Sahara, approaching like a red nuclear cloud and slowly blotting out the entire horizon.

A number of detached heads, though none matching this figure, were found at Qingzhou, and a few are on view here.

Blindingly lighted, endlessly reflected, encrusted with tiny detached heads and limbs, weapons and cars, the sculptures are monuments to consumerist chaos.

Detached arms and legs were flung by the force of the blast from the restaurant, people tripped over detached heads, and dozens of people were studded with nails that had been hurled into their bodies.

Inspection of Plant A revealed that since October 1998, a compressed-air device was used to harvest brains from detached heads (Figure 4).

For specific abnormalities, there was a direct relationship between the incidence of pear-shaped heads and DFI (r = 0.34; P < 0.05), nuclear pouches and DFI (r = 0.47; P < 0.01), mid-piece defect and DFI (P < 0.01); between detached heads and SD_DFI (P < 0.01); and between detached heads and mean_DFI (P < 0.05).