Stone Dead

In truth, I suppose that my biggest objection to neo-defriending is that it takes all the joy out of bringing a stone-dead relationship to an end. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)

He is not like a living thing, but more like a little stone carving of a baby as you find in a church, placed beside his stone-dead mother. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2010)

His voice died away in a whisper, his faint respirations became slower and slower, and at 12:15 he was to all appearances stone-dead. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)

Indeed, they plausibly suggest it may kill the bid stone-dead. ❋ Simon Jenkins (2010)

Court proceedings, injunctions, they could snarl up any programming schedule; sometimes they killed a project stone-dead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He knew very well that an accident in the early stages would have turned them all against him, would have killed the weapon stone-dead in their minds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Agree with the others above that info-dumping kills any story stone-dead, especially if it comes at the start. ❋ Scott Parker (2009)

Surely such debate would only strengthen the acceptance of evolution amongst the populace and kill ID stone-dead, no? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Google Lunar X Prize aims to do the same for Earth's nearest neighbor, transforming what has been a combination celestial junkyard and stone-dead nature preserve into a viable human frontier. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The messengers came at full speed, and found the guards apprehensive of nothing; but on opening the doors, they saw her stone-dead, lying upon a bed of gold, set out in all her royal ornaments. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

Then it came to her in a flash who his stone-dead expression reminded her of. ❋ Carol Fenner (2001)

It was a huge, beautiful kudu bull, stone-dead, on his side, his horns in great dark spirals, wide-spread and unbelievable as he lay dead five yards from where we stood when I had just that instant shot. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (2001)