Sentences with phrase «hollow shells of»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She has fostered a culture that is so divided and so distrustful that the school is just a hollow shell of its old self.

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

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

Their design — two hollow towers, a sort of shell of the fallen buildings, but filled with green space and a performing arts center — was hailed as creating an «iconic and bold new skyline for the twenty - first century,» by the LMDC.

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.

My take: all our principles have been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency leaving us with a hollowed out shell of a political party.

In a paper published in 1692, Edmond Halley, later famed for charting the orbit of his eponymous comet, argued that Earth was mostly hollow, consisting of three concentric shells rotating around a core.

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.

The sculpture consists of 14 glass spheres that focus the Sun's rays into hollow bronze shells, each of which is lined with gold covered by a photosensitive layer of blue cyanine dye.

Their young live in water, normally in pools between the roots of trees or in hollowed - out trunks, and sometimes in discarded coconut shells.

Despite becoming a prostitute of various kinds over the space of a decade, Latika remains a shining beacon of purity in Jamal's eyes, which is kind of sweet except that we never actually see the real street life that would have turned Latika into a hollowed - out shell of a woman.

But the better you become at Shadow of Mordor, the more the Nemesis system reveals itself to be a hollow shell.

The flashbacks help, allowing Affleck to layer his performance, showing us the gregarious knucklehead Lee once was, before mistakes hollowed him out into a shell of his former self.

In short, «right to work» could transform the now - powerful state teachers union into a hollowed - out shell of its former self...

At a claimed 1350 kg it weighs 85 kg less than the regular F430 thanks to a wide - ranging weight reduction programme that includes hollow anti-roll bars and titanium road springs, lightweight bumpers, a Lexan rear screen and, inside, reduced sound - deadening and extensive use of carbonfibre, notably for the door casings and seat shells.

The smell of her skin, her shampoo, the delicate shell of her ear, the shadow in the hollow between her breasts... every time you see her, you collect more details so that you can fantasise about what you want to do to her.»

Theirs not to reason what the fuck, Theirs but to shoot and duck: Niggers to the right of them Niggers to the left of them, Niggers in front of them Partied and blundered Bumrush'd at caps and hollow point shell While hooptie and hoodlum fell They that had banged so well Came thro» the jaws of Death Back from the ho's of Hell, All that was left of them Left of the Olde English Eight Hundred.

The end result is often a hollowed - out shell of a company, looking good to appearances but rotting away on the inside.

Traversing the hollowed - out shell of a world struggling to rebuild itself is a constant reminder of the beauty to be found in abject ruin.

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.

Her pieces, unlike blown up plaster molds from clay, are built structurally and directly by making hollowed plaster forms using the rags and t - shirts as a kind of support for the shells, which she then melds together with burlap.

Wearing time like a stain - Its leafless branches dressed in hollow vessels sweating nervously like the pores on a belly pushing outward As leather yolks seep out from behind their lemon shells Forming a wet mask over the face of what was.

Garden, is a wall installation made up of hollowed egg shells coated in resin and arranged in shapes that resemble flowers and plants.

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.

The bottom shell is made out of a proprietary, biodegradable materials that aids in neutralizing the alkalinity of the cremated ashes, while the top cover is a hollow, ceramic shell with small holes that allow rainwater to be collected inside, and released slowly.

«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.

Time for RECO (Ontario) to dredge the muck, extract the rotten sunken shell, empty that hollow vessel of all of the floatsam and right this ship run by fast - talking fools.

Without the sand, in this case, the foregoing industry related education and pre requisite industry - related experience, in combination with planned full - time devotion to the vocation, the hollow vessel remains simply a shell of a Realtor, looking like a Realtor on the outside, complete with licence, cards and internet presence, but containing a vacuum nevertheless.

First, I formed the shell of the nest with the decorative excelsior - leaving a hollow in the middle for my terra cotta saucer.