Her husband, the failed writer who makes a living penning jingles for the newspaper, seems moved to a lyrical phallicism as he describes his father-in-law's head. |
The ordinary traveler in Japan would not suspect that phallicism had ever been a prominent feature of Japanese religious life. |
The ark itself was a feminine symbol, and phallicism would explain why Moses made an ark and put in it a rod and two stones. |
It was, far more than the streak of bawdy, the slightly over-willed phallicism of the Bolo verses and the Sweeney poems, an act of rebellion against his parents and their tight world of duty. |
Phallicism is the basis of profound realization. |
It is not difficult to find traces of phallicism in the allegory of the Garden of Eden. |