If he survives at all, "he is a burnt-out case."

And his haggard leading-man good looks here convey the impression of a bewildered burnt-out case.

So, yeah, Sam, yeah, I'm over the hill, should be put out to pasture, another burnt-out case.

They tended to look like burnt-out cases from West Bend who were obsessed with truck-stop waitresses.

"You're a burnt-out case on biotech ... so they're sending you to the world's largest engineered-coral island?"

John le Carré, on the other hand, shocked readers with chilling realism and detail, portraying the spy as a morally burnt-out case.

But there's a lot of stress in the work, as you'll find out, and I figure I'd better have a fall-back position once I'm a burnt-out case.

They've probably decided I'm a burnt-out case after what Vilkas told them about the Calamosk chicane.

A Burnt-Out Case (1960) is a novel by English author Graham Greene.

Graham Greene's biographer tells how a melancholic boy with a case of wanderlust became a literary giant instead of a burnt-out case.