41.   Four games into defending their Super Bowl crown, the Cowboys have become a stumbling shadow of their former proud selves.

42.   Greenlaw, meanwhile, is a frail version of his former robust self.

43.   He plodded through a clumsy performance, looking like a soft shell of his former self.

44.   He is destined to be a role player here and nothing more, unless a dramatic, unexpected relapse to his former All-Star self is shown.

45.   He was the ultimate celebrity criminal, but journalists who visited Biggs in recent months say he is a shell of his former self.

46.   Homestore, which until late summer was hailed as an online powerhouse in the making, is now a ghost of its former self.

47.   Hodge will reappear occasionally as a ghost of her former self.

48.   I gave up on boxing several years ago, after Muhammed Ali became a shell of his former self because of too many blows to the head.

49.   I still showed up in the right places at the right time, though I felt like a ghost of my former self.

50.   If not, Pitt and his colleagues will find themselves overseeing an equities market that is a shell of its former self.