The phrase "as a lifeless" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe something or someone that lacks vitality, emotion, or animation.
Example: "He stood there as a lifeless statue, unable to respond to the chaos around him."
Alternatives: "like a soulless being" or "as an emotionless figure".
Meanwhile, Cinefantastique labeled Empire as, "A lifeless copy of Star Wars propelled chiefly on the momentum of that earlier film".
All of a sudden, universalism is out, dismissed as a lifeless political and cultural counterpart of "rootless" global capital.
For years, Mr. Wolfe disparaged the modern novel as a lifeless relic that could be revived only with a muscular framework of reporting and social realism.
By posing as a corpse on the Internet, he thought, perhaps he could win a role as a lifeless extra on "CSI: Miami".
Mr. Briggs and Anthony Deen, Gowanus by Design's other founder, hope that the creative use of forlorn spaces will prevent the area from becoming what they describe as a lifeless enclave of million-dollar apartments.
Hidalgo, currently deputy mayor of Paris and the pollsters' favourite to win the municipal election in March, caused a storm when she announced she wanted to transform Avenue Foch, which some critics have described as a "lifeless urban motorway", into a "green corridor" leading straight to the neighbouring Bois de Boulogne public park.
With backbreaking budget deficits of as much as $4 billion, and a lifeless economy threatening to deepen those shortfalls, experts say the state is mired in its deepest financial hole in decades.
Nature had to exist to provide material for spirit to overcome, although it was a gross mistake to think of it as essentially a lifeless mechanism.
He describes Peake's Cambridge portrait, Prince Charles, as Duke of York as poorly drawn, with a lifeless pose, in a stereotyped composition that "confirms the artist's reliance on a much repeated formula in his later years".
No longer would the federal government serve as a fortress on a lifeless block.
Shepard's convicted murderers, Russell Arthur Henderson and Aaron James McKinney, smashed his skull and tied him to a fence as if he were a lifeless scarecrow, where he was bound for over 18 hours in near freezing temperatures.
