Venus de Milo

Definitions

An ancient Greek sculpture believed to depict Aphrodite (Venus to Romans).

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“A tall woman with dazzling white skin passed by. She looked like⟳ the Vénus de Milo with severed arms restored. It hurt⟳ to look⟳ at her, that’s how beautiful she was.”

“Hands Like⟳ the Vénus de Milo. “I never prayed so much before,” said twenty-eight-year-old place⟳ kicker Garo Yepremian after his Miami Dolphins beat⟳ the Washington Redskins in the 1973 Super Bowl.”

“If the work⟳ is not created of blood and nerves, if it is not the complete⟳ and poignant expression of a creature, I reject⟳ the work⟳, be it the Vénus de Milo.”

“[T]he crowd around the Vénus seemed to me crestfallen, whether because of the great expanse of the Louvre or the gathering dusk, and it was this which prompted the passing thought that we – each of us – wear⟳ the same expressionless gaze as the Vénus de Milo.”

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