Sentence examples for emotionally shattering from inspiring English sources

For the boys' sake, she agreed to take them but found the experience emotionally shattering.

The initial experience of the novel is sobering and oppressive, its final effect is emotionally shattering.

The melodramatic denouement has been cleverly reinvented, freshening a plot device into something unexpected, brutally unromantic and emotionally shattering.

While the circumstances of these stories are indeed harrowing, they are not experienced as emotionally shattering: the child characters are protected by adults throughout.

There has been much praise for the play, but it is Gough's performance that is most talked about, with critics using words such as "titanic" and "emotionally shattering" and, the in the case of the Observer's Susannah Clapp, "career-changing".

With its long takes of extraordinarily detailed yet emotionally shattering testimony, "Shoah" turns the bearing of witness into its subject.

I am emotionally shattered.

He was, he said, "physically and emotionally shattered".

"I was emotionally shattered," Sterling explains to the she-bot in thigh-high boots.

They left their clubs "emotionally shattered" and it appears both are now lost to the AFL.

He said he dropped out of the seminary then, at 19, emotionally shattered by the experience.