Obatala is told by a diviner that he should go to earth on a golden chain, with a chicken and a snail shell full of dirt.
("I happen to know he traded his TV for a conch shell full of weed.… You just won the Oscar like five months ago. No offense, but how many of those speeches of yours are we supposed to sit through?") McConaughey looked delighted.
Let's just say that voters didn't (as host Seth Meyers joked about Matthew McConaughey) trade their televisions for a conch shell full of weed this year.
The museum was the grand project of former president Jacques Chirac, who loved anthropology and embraced the idea of a colloquy of civilizations, as opposed to the academic quality of the old Musée de l'Homme, which Philippe Descola, the chairman of the anthropology department at the Collège de France, described as "an empty shell — full of artifacts but dead to themselves".
In the endlessly repeated metaphor, May supposedly occupied Labour's space with her big, righteous tanks, their tracks churning up Labour territory, their turrets turned towards Labour's heartlands, threatening to blast holes in the party's vote with big shells full of social justice.
I became a shell, empty and full of fear.
When the line clears, he steps up and takes a single taco salad shell out of a container full of shells, carefully selecting one well-buried underneath a pile of similar others, a very certain shell.
If you need me when the shit hits the fan, I'll be in my bunker, eating a platter-sized pastry shell piped full of whitefish salad and topped with artfully arranged sturgeon and decorative choux swans.
When a shell is full, the next element in the series starts a new shell, and that marks the beginning of a new row of the table.
"The shell was full of needles," she said.
