Sentence examples for shell of life from inspiring English sources

That moment — along with a scene in which Mr. Godfrey's character reads a love poem with almost shocking tenderness — helps keep us aware that these people whose stylish skirmishes we are so enjoying are living almost entirely on the bright shell of life, rarely penetrating into the meatier stuff within.

Like I maybe have a pretty good idea what your feminine shell of life looks like.

Inspired by the Japanese traditional performance of Shinto, Diallo broke more than 100 eggs and disposed of their centers to focus on the shells of life, she then covered her body with white paint.

This cascades into essentially living a shell of a life.

While Brigitte led an abstinent shell of a life, Carleen had had three children with three different men.

The outer shell of her life comes together quickly enough -- her work, the subway route she took there and home again, the church she attended.

"The Company Men," written and directed by John Wells, who works mostly in TV (he's the creator of "ER"), has a sturdy subject: what happens to men when they try to maintain the shell of their life after the core of it has dissolved.

While Don may like this now, this is would not have worked for the younger Don who married Betty to create the perfect shell of a life.

Things sparkle less, cars lose their glossy finish, trees sway lifelessly, and you are left with a strange shell of the life you once knew.

And the bone-dry, dusty land around the plant is covered with mounds of empty shells of marine life discarded by the plants.

During that step, sodium carbonate is added to the water to force out calcium carbonate, which is one of the main components in shells of marine life and is an active ingredient in agricultural lime.