101.   They have responded in many ways, but there is one aspect of their former selves that will not go away.

102.   Though a wraith of his former self, he was clear and steadfast before the camera.

103.   This was not his style, not his nature, but he was not sure how to get back to his former self.

104.   To be sure, three months after it was blanketed with smoke and choking ash, Lower Manhattan has largely returned to its former harried self.

105.   Today, the barren machine, a shell of its former self, awaits restoration in a corner of the Warren Public Works yard in Somerset County.

106.   Today, they are mere shadows of their former selves.

107.   US Steel, pounded by cheap foreign rivals and chronic over-capacity in the United States, spent more than two decades shrinking to a shadow of its former self.

108.   We know Jordan is a bulked-up version of his former self.

109.   What emerged was a shadow of its former self, however, and tenants began to flee.

110.   When competition began in January, Hornbeek was nowhere near her former self.