A lifeless shell.

But today the essence is lost; it is just a lifeless shell that people perform.

If the separation occurs after Dust has settled on the person (that is, after he or she has reached adolescence), the person simply becomes a lifeless shell.

Looking down, he regarded the unrecognizable body of K'voq, now nothing more than a lifeless shell while his warrior's spirit made the journey to Sto-Vo-Kor.

When I arrived there, five weeks after the battle, the place had the appearance of a mere lifeless shell.

I'd smelled death all right, but the old man hadn't been hanging around with his scythe at the ready, he'd been and gone and left this lifeless shell behind him.

There was a man inside that lifeless shell.

Though the mortar and block seemed sound and the bulwarks did not crumble, still the castle had the look of a lifeless shell.

By this, the third drifting, lifeless shell, the only thing inside her was a numb, gnawing anger.

Jenny smiled again, made a pushing gesture with one finger, and the lifeless shell crashed to the ground and lay still.