All the life and intelligence simply vanished, leaving her eyes dark wells of emptiness.
When Vaughn opened his eyes he saw that all light and life had vanished from those of his counterpart.
If you die in battle, your life will sink into the ground like rain and vanish without a trace.
All it took was that one afternoon with the state police, she said, and her life vanished like a Sunday morning.
The life there had been as of another world, sunlit, idyllic, now forever vanished.
How many lives had vanished into this place?
The parents were trying to exercise their brain-dead daughter's wish expressed years before that she never be kept alive when meaningful life has vanished.
If the sun were to go out completely, all life on the surface of the earth would vanish.
Then all the life and laughter in her face suddenly vanished.
One morning, a year later, in a split second, Leslie's wonderful life vanished.