With her skin pallor verging on translucence, and a long, tigerish mane, she could be a Victorian dream of the untouchable, and you can picture Millais and Rossetti dropping their brushes at the sight of her.
The Tokyo prosecutor sent his investigators into the hitherto untouchable Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan to ferret out corruption.
Gen Evren's indictment carries great symbolic significance in Turkey, our correspondent says, demonstrating how far the balance of power has shifted away from the once untouchable military establishment.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the seemingly untouchable media magnate who has brushed off countless scandals and challenges to his rule, appears to have made his final stand.
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England's struggles at Murrayfield have prompted calls for major changes to the line-up to face Ireland at Twickenham, with the once untouchable Jonny Wilkinson being singled out for particular criticism.
And its latest target, the once untouchable Oprah Winfrey, recently came in for a drubbing by Newsweek for repeatedly giving a platform to New Age medical cures and medical theories.
The rest of account holders' money was untouchable for the next 18 months, by which time it was worth a great deal less, thanks to the very inflation that the move had been designed to reduce.
With a one-two punch, the glass-is-half-empty gang hit the semis and the until recently untouchable energy names.
Irish citizens, including pious ones, will never again treat the church as untouchable.
The others in that category are French comedy Untouchable, Danish drama The Hunt, Germany's Barbara and Italian Golden Bear winner Caesar Must Die.
The third rail, of course, is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is untouchable, like the electric rail often found in the center of a railroad track.
"We are touching on something which for a long time was thought to be untouchable - the monopolies, " left-wing senator Alejandra Barrales told Reuters news agency.
But it was best actor nominee, the bearded Bradley Cooper who looked the part of an untouchable Hollywood actor in his three-piece tuxedo with extra-wide lapel and slicked back hair.
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Commercial paper is a way of borrowing money for short periods, typically ranging from overnight, to less than a week, and such contracts have become all but untouchable since the credit markets seized up.
Whatever happens, I just hope Massa finds the form that made him untouchable in so many races in 2007 and 2008.
"He thinks he is untouchable because of the people he mixes with, and again I know from personal experience, that they find him amusing and the butt of many jokes, " the letter continues.
They know that politically, the NHS is well nigh untouchable - and that if you are going to dare suggest it needs a prod and a poke if not a good makeover, you'd better be ready to prepare the ground with a liberal dose of praise for NHS staff first.
It roars, day in, day out, untouchable and untouched by the incursions around it.
Inspired by the Venus of Willendorf, a tiny fertility goddess discovered in Austria and dating from around 23, 000BC, Mr Koons's sculpture proposes a new kind of idol a high-tech grande dame whose untouchable polished surfaces reflect the viewer.
The BBC estimated that she raised more money for AIDS research, an untouchable cause when she began, than she had earned over the course of her lifetime.
If this vision is lost, we end up either considering nature an untouchable taboo or, on the contrary, abusing it.
The panjandrums of international football have traditionally been untouchable: FIFA is a law unto itself.
And both defendants seem to believe they are invincible, untouchable, and perhaps even above the law.
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The conventional wisdom had been that these were untouchable classes of government employees.
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Yet these tracts "give way to rubber and oil-palm plantations owned by untouchable companies, " just as the Kapuas river teems with logs felled by similarly connected operators.
But he won more races than any other driver, put his world champion team-mate in the shade more often than not and was untouchable in Bahrain and Valencia, and unlucky in Hungary and Singapore.
Politically, they were untouchable for even Lalu Prasad Yadav, the brash rail minister who appointed Kumar in 2004.
All of which suggests that the F-35 program is as close to untouchable as a weapons program can get.
And even NHL rookie of the year candidate Cory Conacher wasn't an untouchable after Tampa Bay traded him to Ottawa in exchange for goalie Ben Bishop.
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