Sentence examples for discarded doll from inspiring English sources

Gothic performs this work through returning us to other, less palpable fears, the atavistic mind caught by images of dread or doom: a shadowy staircase; the playing fields at dusk; a discarded doll; the silence in an attic room.

She got on film what might be called street Surrealism: a discarded doll, hanging from a nail on a wood fence; a group of tussling children with an extra pair of legs.

In the 1980s, Ms. Libraty found four boxes of discarded dolls in a trash bin.

In ancient Greece and Rome, marriageable girls consecrated their discarded dolls to goddesses.

Duos are tossed like leaves in a storm but a moment later, spent, they lie on their backs, as useless in love as discarded dolls.

Don Julian was ignored for decades as he sailed along Xochimilco's canals, fishing for discarded dolls to take back to his creepy island.

We may not admire them, but they're far more clueless than malevolent; it's not worth expending the effort it would take to judge patriarch George Bluth, who spends his days in an attic having tea parties with discarded dolls.

They die in the same improbable position: sitting up, heads slumped, like discarded rag dolls.

The experiment was replicated in 1969, with similar results; further, the children described the discarded black dolls as "bad" or "ugly".

It is now showing paintings by Gérard Quenum, a Beninese artist born in 1971 previously known for his sculptures – assemblages made using discarded European dolls.

The artist gathered these objects by digging through junkyards, inspired to dumpster dive after a chance visit to one junkyard where he discovered a discarded child's doll in good condition.