Sentence examples for on a severed from inspiring English sources

In a wickedly diverting wall of pencil drawings Ayakoh Furukawa depicts her pet hamster in a series of violent situations; in one this wide-eyed, whiskered creature gnaws on a severed human finger.

A gray zombie baby chews on a severed human hand.

The move has been described by obesity researcher Zoe Harcombe as "useful as putting a plaster on a severed artery".

One corpse, identifiable only by the print on a severed finger, was that of Diana Oughton, daughter of an Illinois state politician, and granddaughter of the founder of the Boy Scouts of America.

The title track's school trip, for instance, gives way to him piercing his hand with a Phillips-head screwdriver while trying to crack open a coconut shell, resulting in surgery on a severed tendon.

In the same year that he painted this, Dalí collaborated with Luis Buñuel on the film Un Chien Andalou, which features a young woman who fixates on a severed hand in the street, and another image in which a man sees his own hand covered in ants.

And writer David Foster Wallace pointed out a stark difference in subtlety between two ear episodes in film, a notoriously violent incident in Reservoir Dogs (not for the faint-hearted) and the mysterious appearance of a severed ear on a lawn at the beginning of Blue Velvet: "Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear".

Daly awoke and turned on the knife, leading to a severed tendon which kept Daly out for two weeks.

The development of the characters' relationship demonstrates how while modern society depends on already existing one, a severed one can be reformed if people have the will.

Yet as far as I'm aware none of the videos actually shows these men's decapitation, if by that is meant a continuously filmed sequence in which blade saws clear through neck; rather, after the hostage-takers' sales pitch, the hostage's "statement" and the beginning of the beheading, the video cuts to an image of a headless corpse, lying on its front, with a severed head placed upright on its back.

Or the gangsterlike Nazi inspector played by the fantastic Alexander Granach, who appeared in Murnau's "Nosferatu" and here wears a vainglorious mustache and bowler hat that, when he's killed, rocks on the floor like a severed head.