Sentence examples for female elements from inspiring English sources

For one, they have obvious male and female elements, like the small, rather shy (for this show) and unmistakably phallic "Male Referendum," and "The Nest," whose snaky, raggedy treads form a female aperture.

Whereas the developing gonads of all other vertebrates have an outer and inner layer of tissue, those of bony fishes have a simple origin that lacks any male or female elements.

Like the qilin (a unicorn-like creature), the fenghuang is often considered to signify both male and female elements, a yin-yang harmony; its name is a combination of the words feng representing the male aspect and huang the female.

I think we all know where we are with it – it's a bit like that other euphemism "strong-willed diva", traditionally applied to the more monstrous female elements of the music industry, whose dressing-room riders stipulate things such as dalmatian-fur bogroll and 36 giant white candles borne by 36 black dwarves.

In fairness, if you're talking about large cultural forces, like all the female elements of the culture being confected by men, they are quite difficult to make out; it's hard to see even the basic outlines of a picture when you're living in it.

The interactions of yin and yang then give rise to the Five Elements (fire, earth, water, metal, and wood), and the integration and union of all of the preceding entities give rise to the male and female elements, which in turn are the cause of the production and evolution of all things.

"There's a very strong female element to the Watersons," says Carthy.

"This female element is going to be echoed throughout the whole season," Mr. Fontana said.

Freud also inhabits the aspect of aged wisdom, and struggles bravely against his antagonist in Hysteria, who happily labels herself the denied female element of his psyche.

But they depart from expectations in another way: like much Akan clay sculpture, they are believed to have been made by women, earth being a female element.

With all three artists consciously injecting a strong sense of the female element into their visions of the natural world, the exhibition offers viewers the opportunity to make their own connections.