As a person in Iraq, you learn from an early age how to become “lifeless” – absolutely numb with no feelings whatsoever.
As if, after all the above, one would want anything that reeked of lifeless imitation.
In that image too, a young boy stands only feet from a lifeless corpse bound to a cross and publicly displayed.
But Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait.
Villagers remember also the image of a mother and daughter, who died holding onto one another in a “lifeless embrace.”
"Yes," he has explained it to me, he said in a lifeless voice.
For fifteen years it had been standing there cold and lifeless.
On entering the basilica Pierre had fancied that it was quite empty and lifeless.
Overcome by the dangerous situation in which I saw my royal mistress, I myself was carried out of the room in a lifeless state.
On 319 the next day the lifeless body of John, was brought into the fort.