The surface had fractured from the fall, leaving a large spider web of cracked paint, and there was no way to restore the immaculate, machine-grade smoothness.
Besides a broken nose, cheekbone, forehead and chin, his skull was fractured from the top of his head down to his jaw.
Parts of the walls show clear signs of fire damage, with the stalagmites blackened or reddened and fractured from the heat, leading researchers to suspect that the Neanderthals embedded fireplaces in the structures to illuminate the cave.
Fractured from the start by the fault-line in the coalition, they were always likely to get tangled up in a mass of contradictions – cutting university funding while increasing public expenditure, promising freedom while tightening regulation.
With his left eye swollen almost shut and his right hand possibly fractured from an uppercut that hit Branco's hip, Gatti was modest at a news conference after the fight.
The relationship was already fractured from the days when Mourinho succeeded Pellegrini at Real Madrid and appeared to scoff at the fact that the Chilean then went to Malaga to rebuild the next phase of an excellent coaching career.
