phallically

The ebony central cord had twisted so that it lay phallically across one cheek.

Its name is derived from the Siegessäule (victory column), a monument in Berlin, which is phallically shaped and located near a cruising area in the Tiergarten park.

From the fruit-colored foam rubber blob on the floor, made in the late 1960's, to a recent oversize, phallically suggestive variation on Isamu Noguchi's famous paper lamp designs, this well-selected retrospective gives a good account of an influential sculptor.

Joyce, with his coda of yesses in Ulysses, Beckett, with the "I will go on" of his trilogy, and those 1,001 phallically erected obelisks and church spires pointing optimistically toward the heavens--for once, just once, let a negative prevail.

Although Harlequin and Dimas, the gardener, indulge in all sorts of phallically symbolic business when it's time for lowdown comedy, Mr. Wadsworth's haunting stage pictures, of melancholy, of elation, and his heart-stopping silences are suffused with consummate grace and lyricism.