Could in another context be sunbathing
Does the highlighted sentence mean "this woman had been probably sunbathing when the nuclear attack happened"?
Context:
British artist Colin Self worked on the theme of war in the 1960s (and returned to it in 2001 in a series of intaglio prints showing flying instruments of war). In 1966, he conveyed an apocalyptic vision of nuclear annihilation in Guard Dog on Missile Site. Here, a desolate-looking landscape, punctuated by a few posts, surrounds an approaching, menacing hound – shades of the Baskervilles’ pet in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous story. Beach Girl: Nuclear Victim (1966) goes further. Modelled on his wife, the one-armed, one-legged victim of a nuclear attack could in another context be sunbathing.
Top answer
red apple Does the highlighted sentence mean "this woman had been probably sunbathing when the nuclear attack happened"? I don't think so. I think it means that she is in a pose that is similar to that of a woman who is lying in the sun.
- red apple Does the highlighted sentence mean "this woman had been probably sunbathing when the nuclear attack happened"?
- I don't think so.
- I think it means that she is in a pose that is similar to that of a woman who is lying in the sun.
- CJ
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red appleDoes the highlighted sentence mean "this woman had been probably sunbathing when the nuclear attack happened"?
I don't think so. I think it means that she is in a pose that is similar to that of a woman who is lying in the sun.
CJ
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