Sentences with phrase «hollow shells»

Conservative, liberal, left, right, libertarian, socialist; those are all hollow shells last capable of carrying meaning long before anyone on this blog was born, if they ever were.
This installment originally aired on February 1, 2010 and includes mostly spoiler - free discussion regarding combat, mining (oh, how Brad loves mining planets until they're hollow shells), characterization, and so much more.
It's a decent enough story and exciting at times, although the characters could certainly be more interesting than the mostly hollow shells that they are here.
These little interactions build more stock in these characters, which up until now have just been hollow shells for the class system.
The women who fulfill this trope in gaming universes are sometimes designed to occupy minor narrative roles but more often than not they're just hollow shells, empty representations with little to no personality or individuality to speak of.
The other dolls occupying each level are hollow shells for you to control so that you may progress.
Just for example» all those places you mentioned are hollow shells of what they were; they are now the the Surf Disney Lands of the world with attendant money grubbing, greed and surf magazine attitude to the max.
You may even find these hollow shells of teeth on the floor or in your kitten's bedding, but more often than not the teeth will fall out while the kitten is eating and he will swallow them with the rest of his food.
Even opening, pointlessly, with a familiar, pixelated - screen aesthetic before adjusting to 35 mm, this risible techno thriller fires so much aww - shit «coolness» at its viewers that, upon its June 2001 release, few likely realized they were being hit with hollow shells.
In laboratories in the US and the Netherlands, physicists are ripping away the electrons that clad atomic nuclei, and rearranging them into a series of hollow shells.
Vols - au - vent (French for «windblown») are delicate hollow shells made with puff pastry.
Hi Trang, I'm so happy to hear they worked for you and you don't have hollow shells!
Hollow shells are the worst because it could be so many things!
Against their joy, community, and sense of belonging I would put their hypocrisy, oppression, and antipathy towards others as making what they do into a hollow shell that de-legitimizes any claim to moral superiority..
The combination package consists of a stand - up pouch accommodated within an outer container that includes a hollow shell with an open bottom.
The stand - up pouch is inserted through the open bottom and a corner spout of the pouch is inserted through an opening in a slanted corner panel of the hollow shell.
Frictional engagement between the comer spout and the opening secures the spout to the comer panel and pouch within the hollow shell.
Compared to the organic parties of the 1st and 2nd republics, his post old breed - new breed guinea - pigging has left the formal party system a hollow shell, devoid of any ideological direction, talk less of rigour.
If Jupiter were a hollow shell, about 1,000 Earths could squeeze inside.
The target itself is a tiny hollow shell filled with the heavy hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium.
Once the insect is dead, the spider regurgitates digestive juices all over the silk and sucks up the fluids that remain, leaving behind a dry, hollow shell.
A hollow shell of metamaterial could in principle channel a single frequency of light around its inner space without slowing the light down, rendering that hidey - hole invisible to the outside world at that frequency.
The economists focused on Detroit given its significant evolution from a world famous city to a «hollow shell» over the past 100 years.
We often associate Clooney with upbeat, fun - loving roles, but the man he plays in The American is the hollow shell of an individual - one who has severed all emotional connections in order to maintain his edge as a hired killer.
His emotions are so deep; his soul appears to have been reduced to a hollow shell.
With most films of this genre, we are given a hollow shell of a plot (Erik tries to lose his virginity, Matt Stifler is forced to spend time at Band Camp), and uses it as an excuse to line up its womanising sight gags and controversial humour.
But the better you become at Shadow of Mordor, the more the Nemesis system reveals itself to be a hollow shell.
The «mirror scene» seems designed to make us feel uncomfortable with our attraction to a robot as it coldly layers a human veneer onto it's hollow shell.
Even if an educational innovation had been in place for years, if the personal concerns of those responsible for instituting that change were not adequately addressed, the innovation would be a hollow shell of its full potential.
Let's see if newspapers and the big blogs keep drumming up a Nook LendMe feature that is a hollow shell of what actual lending of books is.
Unfortunately, the NFS franchise today has become a hollow shell of its high - octane former self.
These themes continue in other pieces that hint at the hollowed shells of bodily forms: a torso, a breast, a head, and two crotches.
The berg is a hollow shell.
Mercury would transit from its orbital ellipse into a straight line and crash into the shell from the inside, as gravitation inside a hollow shell vanishes.
That the general populace may not understand quantum physics, does not make it a hollow shell.
There are no creaks, it doesn't feel like a hollow shell, and that makes it feel much nicer to use than many cheap rivals.
«Hard Working Realtor: one who hides behind his mother's skirt, sometimes even under it; one without a sense of identity, a faceless, nameless acronym of a hollow shell; not a see shell, but a no - see - um shell; a wing - nut without wings; a wannabe marine armed with a pea - shooter; a denizen of the deep living in a leaky urine - hued yellow submarine with special krill - proof screen doors; a wannabe flying fish turned acronymphomaniac.
She has fostered a culture that is so divided and so distrustful that the school is just a hollow shell of its old self.
So I'm surrounded with a hollow shell that I'm now finally coming to terms with and finally changing.

Not exact matches

The ceremony felt «hollowed out,» she writes, «like the empty shell of a nut from which most of the wholesome meat has been scooped.»
I get perfect looking shells, but every batch is hollow.
1621 — Early American settlers of Plimoth Plantation (1620 - 1692), the first permanent European settlement in southern New England, might have made pumpkin pies (of sorts) by making stewed pumpkins or by filling a hollowed out shell with milk, honey and spices, and then baking it in hot ashes.
For an extra touch of fancy, put the shredded squash back in the hollowed out shell.
Blend and pour into Hollow grapefruit shell.
Hollow out bread, leaving a 1 / 2 - inch - thick shell.
The hollowed out shell will add subtle pumpkin flavors to the dish for pumpkin lovers.
Until it finally hit me that my recipe should exploit the crackly shell of a popover and its hollow, airy interior: I was going to turn popovers into sugared, doughnut - like pastries, with that same crispy, buttery, sugared coating, but without the doughy insides.
Here we ditch the taco shell and use a hollowed - out avocado to hold a spicy turkey and black bean taco filling.
Continue to bake until shells are deep golden brown all over and sound hollow when tapped on the bottom, 15 − 20 minutes.
Elco has been doing the puri thing since 1975, stuffing its hollow, fried shells with a spicy chickpea mash, ladling mint and tamarind chutneys over the top, drenching the whole shebang in yogurt, and showering it with crunchy mung beans and a flurry of chopped coriander.
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