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The serpentlike form was borderline hokey, something you might find in a puppet theater or at a child's birthday party.

The serpentlike "writhing weeds" are like Medusa's tentacles or snake hair, poised to embrace and draw one down, into the depths of the waters.

From the idiosyncractic La Pedrera to the fantasia-like Sagrada Familia church, with its kaleidoscope of towers, gargoyles and serpentlike arches.

Action sequences are orchestrated with gusto, including the crash-landing of a helicopter in a river full of deadly, serpentlike Hydrobots.

These enormous children of Gaia had, among other things, long, serpentlike lower limbs.

Shaw isn't the only template in a script that reaches much further back: Adam and Evelyn are an Adam and Eve for our time, a fact italicized by the serpentlike Evelyn taking a portentous chomp out of an apple.

Chewing, sometimes spitting, her eyes half-closed, she wove her arms about, serpentlike, and, by pressing her palms together above her brow, formed the outline of a mosque dome, in which her head smoothly slid from side to side.

A dance of men, cheered by a long meal, would seem to present nothing very interesting to see; however, the harmony of five or six hundred men in uniform, holding one another by the hand and forming a long ribbon which wound around, serpentlike, in cadence and without confusion, with countless turns and returns, countless sorts of figured evolutions, the excellence of the tunes which animated them, the sound of the drums, the glare of the torches, a certain military pomp in the midst of pleasure, all this created a very lively sensation that could not be experienced coldly.

A spiralled, serpentlike staff, held by both the snowman in Runde and a figure struggling up a walkway in Pfad, may allude to the staff that Moses turned into a snake after striking water from a rock; perhaps Moses's tool has lost its power or is being made to serve a new seer.