The muscular creature could be stepping out of a horror movie.
In Benicia, California, Nicholas Oberzire, the owner of the Styled in the Wild cattery, introduced me to his prize cat: Big Kahuna, a muscular orange creature the size of a cocker spaniel, who resides in a tempered-glass cage attached to Oberzire's house.
From a talking horse (Mr. Ed) to The Horse Whisperer, from heavily anthropomorphized cameos in full-length Disney animated features to the leading role in 2002's Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, horses are often seen as sensitive, muscular, and loyal creatures.
Their surviving 459 letters, some surprisingly long (Bishop might elaborate hers over weeks, at times swearing she had written Lowell in her imagination), give us the closest view of these wounded creatures — his muscular, bull-in-a-china-shop intellect; her pained shyness and abject modesty, and a gaze like the gleam off a knife.
The muscular "foot" of the creature can be cut off, cooked and eaten as a miniature steak - although opinions vary as regards its gastronomic merit.
This is the house's connective tissue, and its elastic form conjures multiple metaphors: the muscular structure of an alien creature, a piece of toffee, a birth canal.
The designers gave the creature a smooth, muscular, and powerful appearance.
Still, Cheng's characters are finely spun, soulful creatures, and his writing is muscular, evocative and haunting: "The moon was a cataract eye.... His hummingbird heart smashed itself against his ribs".
Yet look a little closer and you'll notice the butterflies are made from muscular torsos and knotted limbs -- yes, these delicate winged creatures are made of porn.
