Sentence examples for a shattering of from inspiring English sources

Lear perceives Cordelia's understated declaration of love a far cry from her sisters' overblown rhetoric as a shattering of the mirror he would like her to hold up to his soul.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch released a statement, saying: "I condemn the senseless acts of violence by some individuals in Baltimore that have resulted in harm to law enforcement officers, destruction of property and a shattering of the peace in the city of Baltimore.

There is no single answer, he says, but many: a mix of chronic stomach pains, never diagnosed and for which Cobain started "self-medicating" with heroin; a shattering of his childhood idyll when his parents divorced; a general, heightened sense of shame; the unexpected pressures of fame; punk guilt for bringing alternative music to the charts; drugs.

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.

In my book, Trauma and Human Existence, I characterized the essence of emotional trauma as a shattering of what I call the absolutisms of everyday life -- the illusory beliefs that allow us to experience the world as stable, predictable, and safe.

For Halabja, the situation has meant a shattering of fragile hopes.

Love is madness here, duty a cage, self-expression a hazardous shattering of social conventions.

Then the man fired a second burst; there was a tremendous shattering of windows and bottles.

A shift or a strengthening of the wind brought them the sound of wavelets breaking on the shore below, like a distant shattering of glasses.

"It's a kind of shattering of a fantasy".

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