Sentence examples for a shattering impact from inspiring English sources

The Agnus Dei, with its dry, death-rattle drum rolls (played using wooden-headed sticks) and barely controlled outbursts of "Miserere", made a shattering impact.

But a combination of powerful blows could still have a shattering impact.*"The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Why are the 2000s So Different From the 1970s?", by Olivier Blanchard and Jordi Galí.

Thea Sharrock's production of Eugene O'Neill's 1920 expressionist drama made a shattering impact at the Gate Theatre in 2005: not least because it turned the audience into guilty voyeurs peering down into a sand-filled sarcophagus.

What made this version all the more astonishing was that it came just as a plane, perhaps a B-52, was passing high overhead after dropping bombs that had exploded with a shattering impact on an invisible target a few miles away to the southwest.

Now that broken promise could have a shattering impact on their family.

Susan Morris, general manager for Macmillan Cancer Support in Wales, said: "This research shows that isolation can have a truly shattering impact on people living with cancer.

It may not have arrived in the universe with the same shattering impact as a handbag thrown at a window pane or a woodpecker's beak upon the bark, but in our own small way I hope that we have added something beautiful and thought-provoking to the world — something to open your windows up just a little wider so that a little more light shines through.

But off the pitch we are united by a common goal, a common cause – to halt the shattering impact of HIV and AIDS on children and young people globally.

The sets for the third act, in which a mountain storm takes the lives of a young couple, could not have been more spare, yet the stage pictures worked with Henze's hauntingly iridescent music to produce a shattering emotional impact.

The shattering impact of these events galvanized in the United States and Russia a determination to counter the terrorist menace.

In Britain, the shift was not surprising given the shattering impact of popular opposition to Blair's War on Terror at home.