Sentence examples for a shatter of from inspiring English sources

"The high point of his achievement," Bosley Crowther wrote of Minnelli in The New York Times, "is a ballroom scene which spins in a whirl of rapture and crashes in a shatter of shame.

Darwin's perception that the 1835 earthquake represented a shattering of the "oldest associations" echoed in the Chilean collective memory.

Their acts of memory are also reënactments of loss, and the poisoning of memory by war is also a shattering of their identity.

The three surviving children - Sophie, Bill and Fred - are carefully characterised, and what the film spells out is that the shooting of Tom was a shattering of the entire family.

Even when life is awful, it's often a shattering of old ways to make room for a new manifestation, which is further reason to stay in gratitude.

In fact, just as many Asian, white and "other" friends of mine saw the landmark ascendancy of a brown faced man to the most powerful job in the world as a shattering of the constrictive racial shackles of this country.

On the back there's a photo of a shattered piece of gum.

O'Neill's autobiographical play is a shattering depiction of a day in the dreary life of a couple and their two sons.

The dramatic highs and lows of June and July have left you a shattered shell of your former self.

Fashioned to resemble a shattered Star of David, it is designed to provide a symbolic experience of German Jewish history.

Sally Hunt (yep, twice in one Cribsheet) calls the plea a "shattering indictment of government funding policy".