Sentences with phrase «empty shell»

Certainly minimalist characters can be fascinating in other movies, but here they are just empty shells.

You can even toss empty shells to distract criminals and laugh as they somehow fail to see you in the broad daylight.

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

These gestures communicate selves whose consciousness have been expunged in the most complete sense, leaving empty shells that have no shame or desire, only an automaton's compulsion to express behaviors no matter how machinic.

But external observances that have lost their transparency to the ultimate may well be discarded like empty shells.

And the monasteries themselves, once the centers of the Orthodox faith in the Holy Land, had become empty shells, staffed by a caretaker monk or two.

Octopus uses empty shells to hide; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Nick Hobgood Elephants cooperate to solve problems.

Both of these teams were forsaken, empty shells without any hope for joy or resolution.

«Cicada larvae emerge from the ground in the evening and molt on trees, leaving behind empty shells.

Other exhibits that were retrieved from the suspects include empty shells and an unregistered Royal motorbike,» he said.

Furthermore, residents of Dawaki suburb in the FCT were saved the orgy of armed robbers attack last week when the police acting on a tip - off, swooped on a gang of robbers, arrested them and recovered 3 double barrel guns, 1 pump action gun, 50 live cartridges and 41 pieces of empty shell cartridges, as they had mobilized and were about to proceed to unleash terror on innocent residents of the community.

«The troops also recovered a General Purpose Machine Gun, several rounds of 7.62 mm (NATO) ammunitions, 47 rifle magazines, 36 hand grenades and quite a number of Shilka gun empty shells.

Like eating empty shells.

If you have hermits to sell, you will also be able to sell customers small empty shells, which the hermits will use for new homes as they grow.

Customers should have some extra empty shells lying around on the substrate that can be adopted as new crab «condos.»

For empty shells act as the go - to currency in Dodge's high - octane shooter, allowing you to purchase new weapons, passive and active items, along with health and armour at the shop.

Even though e-commerce-occupied properties are generally much more built - out and specialized, they are selling at higher rates than empty shell buildings in prime locations, Foster notes.

Even empty shells should be left on the seabed and great care must be taken to not touch or kick the corals so our reefs diversity is preserved for future generations of marine life and divers enjoyment.

In one of the novel's climactic moments, Rodrigues confronts Ferreira, whom he finds to be a weary, empty shell of the Jesuit zealot he once knew:

In Europe this is symbolized by the churches «having become empty shells, visited only as objects of architectual interest, and in the United States by the growing chasm between what churchgoers profess and how they act.

As in the story you read, many of the battles are fought by elite units of Exodrones — these cybernetic super-soldiers are a graft of heavily augmented organic tissue and machine that are grown and manufactured as empty shells, possessing no life of their own.

The Chinese are in an untenable situation where they live off their main trade partners while advocating globalization, multilateralism and the empty shell of «win - win cooperation.»

Quote: «What wordy praise can one give such men as these; men who... follow unhesitatingly when in the vicinity of minefields so long as there is the possibility of targets... Men who will fight to the last bullet and then start throwing the empty shell cases.

The reality was an enormous banking fraud, an orgy of insider dealing as bank managers lent the money to themselves, leaving an empty shell — and then saying that this was all how «free markets» operate.

The reality was an enormous banking fraud, an orgy of insider dealing as bank managers lent the money to themselves, leaving an empty shell — and then saying...

«It's like an empty shell of an organization.

Now the church has an ugly new building and an empty shell standing where we used to meet.

Disbelief in God does not leave a person as an empty shell.

Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.

Thus when we attempt by this means to unveil a fully human Jesus we discover that we are left with the empty shell of a once vital faith.

This is an empty shell of a rebuttal.

The dogmatists of the law reply to Buber that spirit remains a shadow and command an empty shell if one does not lend them life and consciousness from the fountain of Jewish tradition.

The ceremony felt «hollowed out,» she writes, «like the empty shell of a nut from which most of the wholesome meat has been scooped.»

The Saxon prophet summed it up in a piece called The Keys (1530): «We know pretty well that the Romans do not consider us Germans to be human beings, but empty shells and shadows... they think that when a cardinal lets wind, the Germans believe a new article of faith is born.»

You could never figure out anything using with that empty shell underneath that green helmet, Son.

The fact that you got ta work to get to the pistachios and the visual cue you get from the empty shells is like built - in portion control!

Then, remove the paper or foil and the weights or beans and return the empty shell to the oven to bake for another 10 - 15 minutes, until golden brown.

Note: If the clams are large, chop half or all of the clam meat and mix into the pasta: discard any empty shells.

My little sister's eyes always lit up when the popovers arrived, and she began to fill the empty shell with Mom's currant jelly... a sweet instinct she has not lost.

Mussels in White Wine Sauce - quick and easy to make, toss the little forks and use an empty shell to pull the mussels out.

Prick the dough with a fork and add parchment discs on top of the pricked dough and fill the empty shell with baking beans.

Walcott is an empty shell that offers up little but takes handfuls in wages.

The venue and show as a whole felt very professional — it's amazing how they transform it from an empty shell into a shiny exhibition hall!

This wetness will get on your hands as you try to empty the shell and get the insert into your diaper pail.

To empty the shell, carefully remove the silicone Backing Cushion and pour the breast milk into a sterilized bottle or pre-sterilized bottle bag.