Search Details

Word: bitchgoddess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1972-1972
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...imagines planted by Lucrezia Borgia. The connotations of that name reveal in her no dried-up spinster, but the malevolence of cruel sexuality. All her dewyeyed clinging to a golden past is merely the weapon she uses to emasculate Giorgio's overworshipful maleness at the altar of a bitchgoddess. Not only cold, she is consciously evil. Raising her eyes to meet Giorgio's tormented shock of recognition through the garden-house window, when he discovers her with Malnate, she stares back at him with the full meanness of her decayed sensibilities. With a magnificently erotic gesture, she tosses the shawl...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 2/16/1972 | See Source »

| 1 |