Reviewing for the New Statesman and Nation, Raymond Mortimer wrote that the triptych "seems served from Picasso's Crucifixion [1930], but further distorted, with ostrich necks and button heads protruding from bags-the whole effect gloomily phallic, like Bosch without the humour.

The one that sheltered Lord Belpher was so deep that only his head and neck protruded above the level of the road, and so dirty that a bare twenty yards of travel was sufficient to coat him with mud.

A cormorant was fishing too, its back almost awash and its neck and head protruding from the water at an angle, like a bent piece of burnt wood.

The neck of a Jack Daniel's bottle protruded from his crotch, and about half an inch of dark brown liquid remained in the glass beside his chair.

GEODUCK: Like the steamer, the geoduck (pronounced gooey duck) gapes, and its extralong, serpentine black neck, or siphon, protrudes from the shell.

Her severed neck was encrusted with dried blood and part of her windpipe was protruding on to the sheet.

He had a crooked, lumpish nose, a jutting Adam's apple and unsightly neck protruded from his food-stained shirt.

The man had lain for days above the cave mouth waiting for him to emerge, slashing down with a rusted bayonet as his head and neck protruded through the opening.