Of course those tensions are magnified when you're waiting for one of your little party to crash and shatter.
In December 2004, we watched as waves the height of ten-story buildings crashed against our shores and shattered thousands of people's livelihoods.
Lunch, lunch plate, water glass, and silverware all crashed to the floor and shattered, rearranging themselves in a terrible yet somehow thrilling new configuration on the tiles.
He has had both hips replaced — his ice-hockey days at Yale took a toll — and he is still recovering from an accident last May, in which he steered his racing bike into a curb, crashed to the road, and shattered his right femur.
Ms. Pratt, 76, had just returned home from an outing when the tornado hit about 4 30 p.m. Glass shattered, plaster crashed and trees snapped, she recalled at her home today as repair crews with buzz saws worked to clear the debris outside.
The game, played before a sellout crowd of 16,297, was delayed for six minutes at 6 39 of the third period when Kyle McClaren and Smolinski went crashing into the boards and shattered the glass panel just past the blue line on the left side of the ice.
The bombs, launched by planes visible from the ground, sent about three-fourths of the bridge's metal structure crashing into the river and shattered windows in the church, a hotel, a row of riverside cottages and Varvarin's town hall.
Two coaches carrying Oxford and Cambridge students on the annual Varsity ski trip in Tignes have crashed, leaving windows shattered and passengers with minor injuries.
He walks with a limp since a 2003 accident in which he lost control of his car, crashed into a house at 100 mph and shattered his pelvis.
Bottles shattered, wheels spun, colored smoke plumed up into the air, and the machine's various metal components crashed and clinked atop a piano, creating an arrhythmic soundtrack.
But that's exactly what Chelyabinsk, to the east of Ural Mountains in southern Russia, did last month when an 10,000-ton meteor crashed through the atmosphere, producing a sonic boom and shattered into pieces 32 miles above the city.
