Sentence examples for and the smashing of from inspiring English sources

And then the screaming and the smashing of glass.

Certain dangerous effects, such as explosions, crashes, and the smashing of wood or glass, must also take place offstage.

From a teen-ager's walk to the firing of a gun and the smashing of windshields: it will take hard questioning in Ferguson to put those pieces together.

This is precisely why iconoclasm and the smashing of stone representations of God has long been a part of Christian history.

As the Israeli scholar Ehud Sprinzak writes in his study "The Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right," 1967 marked a "mental revolution," and the smashing of "a twenty-year political paradigm" of national vulnerability.

It was a striking moment for Israelis and Palestinians who suffered through the violence of the last 33 months -- the suicide bombings on Israeli buses and the smashing of Palestinian homes -- and witnessed the chasm it opened between the two sides.

People traditionally associate the country with ancient history, beaches and, perhaps, the smashing of dinner plates, but few of us fully recognise its geographical position.

The pulverisation of mosques and Catholic and Orthodox churches, the smashing of gravestones – even the bulldozing of graveyards – were a form of cultural cleansing that reached its apogee in the burning of the old Sarajevo library.

The bleakness is relieved by the rituals of tension — spot the many dogs that stray into view, and listen for the smashing of glass — and by Mungiu's baleful pastiche of a happy ending.

The mix of admiration and fear at the smashing of the glass ceiling by any woman who wore the trousers was expressed in the words of the Socialist President François Mitterrand of France in 1984 — during a spat over the European Economic Community budget.

Sexual experiment, gender slippage, gay sexuality, the age of consent, the smashing of boundaries and taboos, the '70s were a time of volcanic upheaval.