Sentence examples for already hollow from inspiring English sources

In "Casanova" the comedy depends on such things as palpitating ladies bursting out of their dresses, and on Jeremy Irons, as a bishop dispatched from Rome, sucking in his already hollow cheeks as he quivers with rage against "fornication".

Looking decidedly thinner, his already hollow facial features more sharply defined than ever, he mirrors the pressure borne by the Eagles since September when they began three months of unsuccessful recording in London with Glyn Johns (producer of their first two albums) before switching to Bill Szymczyk and the LA Record Plant for another try, this time successful.

If your bamboo piece isn't already hollow, use a metal rod to push out the material at its center.

Mr Ortega has already hollowed out most Nicaraguan institutions.

But whatever happens, they also know the choice is one between a complete march into the unknown or a conscious decision to take measures that – for a time, at least – will inflict further damage on a country already hollowed out by the eviscerating effects of austerity.

Patrick Currier, an energy consultant and former congressional energy expert, said that if the state is not careful about driving up electricity prices, it will exacerbate an exodus of industrial manufacturing that has already hollowed out the Los Angeles economy.

By the end of the 18th century the emergence of these rivals had broken the Dutch monopoly for good.By that time the VOC was already a hollow mockery of its original ghastly self.

But for the thousands of civilians still trapped inside Sloviansk, the epicenter of a two-month long anti-terror operation launched by the government in the country's east, the words have already rung hollow.

But for many, the city already seems hollowed out.

His support inside and outside Haiti had already been hollowed out.

Senators on both sides talked about the grandeur of traditions already long hollowed out John McCain, before voting for the nuclear option, told the Washington Post that anyone who thought that the move would be healthy for the Senate was "a stupid idiot"—a decline for which the modern filibuster bears some real blame.