Sentences with phrase «empty shell of»

But understandably, an empty shell of a house or apartment can be a little overwhelming.

Transparency, debate and challenge is the lifeblood of any science — if that is lost then we are left with an empty shell of assertion and ignorance.

I never felt like I was clicking through an empty shell of a game, like a lot of Kickstarter projects end up representing, but instead a finely crafted world ripe for exploration.

But while Mario Party often lead to a manic (if sometimes unfair) good time with friends, then Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt is merely the empty shell of that concept.

Super Cloudbuilt puts you in the role of Demi, a young soldier who wakes up in the empty shell of a ruined building, in the center of a strange new world, disconnected from her old life and physical body.

If a community such as Mt. Laurel experienced a severe case of «white flight,» some argue that the poor members of the community would be left in an even worse place — in an empty shell of a residential suburb (47).

Rarely seen without a bottle of liquor, Vincent is usually the film's comedic relief, despite being an empty shell of a man.

However, a copy was made of his great unfinished symphony, and Julie must make a decision on whether to help return to her old life and finish the piece, or spend the rest of it in the empty shell of her own making.

Ralph Fiennes gives us the empty shell of a man in his physically driven performance, and Miranda Richardson plays a variety of roles that occupy Spider's memories with utter believability.

If you're looking for a great family comedy watch Toy Story or The Sandlot instead, Mouse Hunt simply is an empty shell of a film, a film that leaves a lot to be desired.

A combtooth blenny peeks out from its tiny hiding place, having moved into the empty shell of a barnacle that once grew and attached to an underwater beam of a Gabonese oil platform.

In this regard, you'll often sometimes see the House pass essentially an empty shell of a bill, kicking the can to the Senate to actually flesh it out.

An empty shell of a politician, functioning on autopilot.

My husband and his mother have eroded who I was and now my husband has made me this lonely empty shell of a person which he seems quite content to continue living like this thinking or believing its ok.

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:

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

This is an empty shell of a rebuttal.

I saw katrina first hand and knew all those empty shells of houses were not getting the mortgages paid.

Not exact matches

So an inspector came out to the phony, empty office, but instead of turning the group down for having no security in place, or arousing suspicion about the obvious potential that the business was a shell company, he issued a license on the spot for a small amount of radioactive material.

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.

Later in winter or spring came the time to empty the crib into a noisy shelling machine that spat out cobs and made cracked feed of the kernels.

We ought to allow our living experience once more to fill the empty verbal shells of an all - too - familiar religious language, so that the word of the cross and of the imitation of the crucified Lord might suddenly receive an intelligible content and a power that force men to make a decision.

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.

It is the empty and deeply problematical shell of that relationship.

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.

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.»

In a medium glass or ceramic bowl with a lid, combine the cashews with the water, and pour in the contents of the probiotic capsule (discarding the empty capsule shell) or the probiotic powder.

Place the empty egg shells into a muffin tin, using squares of tin foil to help prop them up.

To decide what size of baking dish to use, before starting the recipe arrange the uncooked shells into the empty dish and make sure they will all fit (remembering you'll also have sauce in there).

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

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

Clean regularly gone quicker with less problems and toxicity: (nits or their empty dead shells still must be removed by hand to have evidence of their once having been there gone or hair cut out) vinger gets it easier to let go.

The process is inverted here: those values can be painted on to the empty canvases of these sterile human shells.

Three floors of the new buildings were to be built, only to be «shelled» (left empty) to reduce the cost.

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.

Rumour has it that China is full of these empty shells.

«Instead [of a commitment to stable domestic science funding], we get a fancy website which is more an empty shell than anything else,» says Olivier Berné, an astrophysicist and CNRS researcher at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France.

Inspired by one of natures most appealing shapes, I decided to try my hand at making candles using empty egg shells, and I'm thrilled with the end result.

There are a lot of sites out there that look decent at the beginning but really are just shells covering up empty sites that only want to take your money.

They are the shells of life, and empty ones if in the end all they hold are days and days without love.

But kinda how you pointed out, the films feel like an empty shell, a facade of what would otherwise be a great trilogy or standalone film in the hands of a better scriptwriter or director.

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.

Rumored to be based on both Balenciaga and Charles James, Reynolds is a genius with a yard of taffeta, but an empty shell as a man — antisocial, demanding, exasperating and cruel.

Players take control of wise - cracking, moustache toting badass Guerrilla Bob as he makes his way on a long strewn trail of revenge, through countless enemy soldiers and empty machine gun shells.

I understand asset stripping as being the process of selling off the assets of a company (in this case the academy trust) and extracting the proceeds into the pockets of the investors leaving behind an empty shell company with debts that will collapse.

We'll start with the fact that there is [sic] essentially four kinds of penny stock companies in the Pump & Dump world: (1) the kind where the management is in on the scam and is directly knowledgeable and complicit with the intent to deceive the public; (2) the kind where some poor schmoe has a great idea (at least he thinks it is) that requires financing, and becomes the mark of a parasitic «funder» who makes all kinds of promises of unlimited monies and riches beyond the mark's wildest dream; (3) the kind where the company is absolutely for real but the shares have been hyped (sometimes hijacked) into ridiculous valuations; and, (4) a hijacked empty and inactive shell.

Scandal Point, the main square, where once girls, just out from the UK, made eyes at eligible young bachelors, is still bustling, but many of the old colonial buildings are no more than empty shells.

These snails actually live on the backside of the island, but land fill material from there has been used to build up the beach behind sea walls, so some empty shells can be found in front of some of the beach front buildings.