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Corrigan's Toulouse-Lautrecian fin-de-siecle palette, and her sparely illustrative brushwork that evokes early-1960s paperback-novel covers and children's-book illustrations effect a certain nostalgic, fey aesthetic currently popular in painting, one often accompanied by an undertone of buzzing anxiety and alienation--take, for example, the recent, variously desexed, predatory, and abject figurative work of Sanya Kantarovsky, Ella Kruglyanskaya, and Tala Madani.

Just as with the Rue Morgue victims, Dupin endeavours to solve the mystery through a process of logical incision, reducing the murdered woman to the sum of her parts, "to so much rotting material and a jumble of dismembered, desexed parts" (Frank 173).

Any autarch who fails the trial is desexed. The water aliens oppose the coming of the New Sun.

One could argue that Mary is not violently "desexed" by Tolstoy, but rather that she was comfortable leading a life that is, by traditional standards, relatively unfeminine.

Dubai: This winter, an animal welfare centre in Ras Al Khaimah has urged residents to take advantage of the cooler months to have their pets desexed, microchipped, dewormed, and vaccinated through their mobile veterinary clinics to prevent lethal and nasty animal diseases.

As 'the plural and composite site of the relationships that produced them,' her desexed de-individuated persons are dispersed among the others who brought them into being, creating a 'generalized sociality' that reads at its most coherent like a totalitarian 'grid' or 'stamp' a society may deploy through myth and rite to shape its members and recruit them to its ranks (ibid.: 13).

They envisage a kind of equality in which both sides are desexed. For Dundar, one of the things that makes one a good citizen is this suppressed sexuality.

This is a reference to the prevailing world containing "only heterosexual women and a kind of oddly desexed male population, often referred to in the novel as eunuchs" (214).

She was advised to have him desexed and that she had done with disastrous results because he became fat and ugly which made her feel guilty.

(Although those who had read Gay American History knew that life around the campfire wasn't as chaste as Gunsmoke suggested.) Sure, this proliferation of gay images can be called progress, but these representations of gay lives have squeezed out everything but the most desexed characters, or the most cliched.

Paglia (1994, 180), for example, speaks of "a problem that the feminist establishment refuses to face: career women in the Anglo-Saxon world have desexed themselves.