Sentence examples for an empty dress from inspiring English sources

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Grimes, Nunn, Hagan and Shaheen are all neck-and-neck in the polls against their male challengers – though Grimes, who was called an "empty dress" by a senior Republican party official last year, comes in for the most criticism from the pundit industry, which partially explains Clinton's relatively early appearance in her state.

Earlier this year, the group's communications director, Brad Dayspring, called her an "empty dress" in an interview with The Hill.

In September, the National Republican Senatorial Committee's communications director called Grimes "an empty dress" who is "incapable of articulating her own thoughts".

Dayspring himself has come under criticism recently for his own gender-colored comment, when he called Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergran Grimes an "empty dress". Gage pointed to Cuccinelli's failed gubernatorial effort in Virginia this year as Exhibit A of what not to do.

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Finally, Kreider left the ice and sat at his stall in an empty dressing room.

The election that Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army SPLAA) spent two decades in the bush fighting for, and in which 2 million people died, has already been condemned as an expensive and empty dress rehearsal paid for by an international community intent on trumpeting progress.

(Her work was included in a traveling exhibition called "Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art," in 1993).

Mr. Gober's sculptures have always replicated things so common and generic that they are steeped in memory and weighted with sometimes unnerving cultural meaning, the more ambivalent the better: an empty wedding dress, a crib, wallpaper with the repeating pattern of a lynched black man and a sleeping white man, a single bright red Mary Jane shoe.

The toes point up from the water but also down to floating symbols of her life – an empty Mexican dress, a seashell full of bullet-holes, two lesbian lovers, Kahlo's parents and an island on which a volcano belches forth "The Empire State Building spewing gangrene / over my shin".

We prefer Richard Branson in a space shuttle surrounded by long-legged stewardesses as opposed to outside an empty wedding dress shop called "Virgin Brides".

During those precarious war years the programmes had to be popular, but sometimes Felix was allowed his head, and he would spread himself in the empty dress circle, following the scores of Debussy, Delius and Bax.

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