Now his family, with an eye to their inheritances, have him under house arrest and allege a morphine overdose in A&E after his tumble caused their dad's priapic adventures.

(27) Additionally, Poussin also might have seen examples of drawings and imprints of the priapic gems owned by Pieresc, another frequent correspondent of Cassiano dal Pozzo.

They are soon joined in the fourberth compartment by another couple, Carlos (Eduardo Noriega), a handsome, priapic Spaniard, and Abby (Kate Mara), a hard-looking Yank who doesn't say much.

Mind you, the erotic tension is positively priapic , especially a scene involving a bath and some neck stroking.

Priapic , croquet-swaggering Prezza brought the whole game of government pleasure pads into disrepute, and ministers won't touch them with a barge pole.

Since Jefferson, the White House has had a tradition of priapic presidents culminating in the clowns Kennedy and Clinton in whose company even the Duke of Mantua appears virginal.

We find Boswell here much as we already knew him: bumptious, foolish, morbid, priapic , endlessly observing himself.

I think that is why no hack novelist can ever quite bring himself or herself to admit that he is frankly pandering to low public taste, no matter how generally idiotic, cravenly priapic , dully obscene, crassly violent, or in fact face-pullingly stupid his work may be, which immediately brings to mind a sociological complaint I heard earlier this year of multimillionaire Bill Cosby--comedian of the commercial, rajah of the rubber face--about the unfairness of blacks having to become buffoons in order to work in show business, which seems to me to be nothing less than the equivalent of Ronald McDonald complaining about junk food.

Or the persona shifts genders in "Unchain My Heart," the story of an affair with a dominating and singularly priapic scuba diver, formerly a bank robber, as told by an extraordinarily macha, so to speak, New York editor.

5 JEAN-JACQUES LEQUEU My interest in architectural follies led me to the curious plan for a building called the Temple of Equality and, subsequently, to the man who rendered it, Jean-Jacques Lequeu--an obscure turn-of-the-nineteenth-century visionary who drew fantastical buildings, like the Drinking Den for an Arid Wilderness, the Hammock of Love (replete with copulating couple), and a priapic fountain in a gothic tabernacle, not to mention bizarre, lewd figures and self-portraits in drag.

Not only does he miraculously survive, but Dominic's whole body reverts from his 70-year-old state to the youthful, priapic self he was decades earlier.